地方感知与生命书写:19世纪女性书信和游记中的怀俄明

A Sense of Place and Life Writings: The Representation of Wyoming in the 19th Century Women's Letters and Travelogues

文学对生命历程的书写往往与具体的地理场景直接相关,生命书写中的具体地方蕴含着书写者的生命体验和情感编码。本文在美国西进运动的历史语境中集中分析宅地女斯图尔特的书信和英国投资商彭德夫人的游记,她们的生命书写在呈现怀俄明州自然风景与人文景观的同时,揭示出不同文化身份的人对于同一地方的差异性体验与文学表征策略。这一发现能够促使人们探查个体生命经历与社会进程之间的张力,并由此在多条线索的框架内理解历史文化的复杂面向。

Literary writings about life courses are frequently rooted in specific geographical conditions. Places in life writings are thus enriched with life experiences and emotional codes. This essay analyzes the letters of homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart and the travelogues of English investor merchant Lady Rose Pender in the context of Westward Movement in the United States. The natural landscape and the human landscape of Wyoming that are represented in their life writings reveal the diverse experiences and literary strategies by people of different cultural identities. The study, therefore,encouraged an investigation into the tension between individual life experiences and social development, while also deepening our understanding of the complexity of history and culture within multiple frameworks.