空间、记忆、身份——《我辈孤雏》中的生存困境

Space,Memory and Identity:The Living Predicament in When We Were Orphans

《我辈孤雏》中的空间、记忆和身份是不可分割的统一体。空间不再是静止不动的,而是一个流动的过程,充满动态的变化。不断置换的多重空间承载着主人公的多重记忆,而对过去的追忆也必然会折射出该人物的生存空间。《我辈孤雏》围绕空间置换、空间迁移以及空间建构,从空间、记忆、身份三个紧密交织的维度对班克斯生活的真实图景进行描述,展示了空间叙事与记忆的本质联系,折射出班克斯对身份的焦虑和追寻,进而揭示后殖民语境下“孤雏”群体漂泊不定、无根性和边缘性生存状态的主题。

In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel When We Were Orphans,the interplay of space,memory,and identity forms an inseparable unity.Space serves as a process of mobility instead of a static backdrop,undergoing dynamic changes.The constantly changing multiple spatial dimensions inevitably bear the protagonist's multiple memories,and the recollection of the past undoubtedly reflects the prism of his current living space.Through three closely intertwined dimensions of space,memory and identity centering around spatial displacement,spatial transfer and spatial construction,the novel describes a real picture of Banks's life,indicates the essential connection between spatial narrative and memory,reflects Banks's identity anxiety and identity pursuit,and thus reveals the universal theme of adrift,rootless and marginal existence that are demonstrated in those"orphans"in the post-colonial context.