论伍慧明小说中唐人街的空间封闭与突破

On the Space Closure and Breakthrough of Chinatown in Fae Myenne Ng’s Novels

美国华裔作家伍慧明的两部代表作品《骨》和《望岩》中,共同表现了旧金山唐人街封闭空间对于华人尤其是男性华人的政治压迫和权利剥离。小说中的华裔群体尝试突破美国政治对唐人街物理空间、社会空间和华人心理空间的封闭隔离,在中国故事与美国现实之间创造出新一代华人独立、自主、兼收并蓄、万物生长的“居间”或“第三空间”,打破边缘与主流、封闭与开放、真实与谎言之间的二元对立,构建自由自主的华裔表征空间。

The two representative works of Chinese-American writer Fae Myenne Ng,Bones and Steer Toward Rock,jointly depict the political oppression and power stripping of American Chinese,especially male Chinese,in the enclosed space of San Francisco’s Chinatown.The American Chinese community in the novel attempts to break through the closed and isolated physical,social,and psychological spaces of Chinatown in American politics.With the efforts of breaking the binary opposition between margins and mainstream,closed and open,truth and lies,they have created a new generation of independent,autonomous,inclusive,and all encompassing“in-between”or“the third space”between Chinese stories and American reality,and constructed a free and autonomous representation space for Chinese-American people.