女性之觉醒的力量——解读《美国在心中》(英文)

Women as an Awakening Force—A Case Study of America Is in the Heart

该文通过文本细读的方法,解读了菲裔美国作家卡洛斯.布洛桑的自传体小说《美国在心中》中形形色色的白人女性形象。这些女性角色不仅作为典型形象展现了各种矛盾深刻对立的美国社会的方方面面,更作为激励人觉醒的力量对主人公Allos的成长和成熟产生了巨大的影响。正是白人女性象征了布罗桑和其他菲律宾移民们心中理想的美国,象征了美国友善美好的一面;也正是白人女性作为一种治愈力量,治疗主人公遭遇不公和残酷对待后的创伤。而白人知识女性启蒙和引导Allos接受教育,实现了他心灵的觉醒,逆转了美国教育的功能,使之从一种美国的文化适应策略变成菲裔移民们颠覆与重建的利器。这些白人女性也增强了主人公颠覆旧世界、建立一个现代主义新世界的决心和勇气。

This paper is intended to explore the various women characters from different spheres of America in the Filipino-American writer Carlos Bulosan's autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart through a close reading.These characters function a lot both as images which help draw a panorama of the divergently contradictory America and as an awakening force which exerts great influences on the protagonist Allos's growth and maturity.In the book it is often a white woman who symbolizes the America to which Bulosan's Filipinos want to belong and it is often women that symbolize what is kind and beautiful of America.It is also woman that serves as a healing power to the protagonist after his encounter with the brutality of America.The intellectual white women guide Allos's education and lead him to his social awakening,to avert the function of education as a strategy of acculturation into a strategy of subversion,and strengthen his determination to reconstruct the old world and to build a modern utopian world.