记忆·情感·身份——评传教士后代弗利兹的童年自传《思乡》

Memory, Emotion and Identity??On Jean Fritz's Childhood AutobiographyHomesick :My Own Story

美国传教士后代珍·弗利兹在其童年自传《思乡》中,在回忆的基础上,利用文学虚构等方式,书写了相关的中国童年记忆,建构和阐释了她本人以及其他来华传教士子女内心的复杂童年情感和身份困惑。同时,此文本清晰地表明了与其他类别的自传相比,童年自传中的记忆、情感和身份呈现出不同的特点和作用。正是这些不同,构成了此类自传自身的一些内在特征,使其成为一种特殊的自传类别。

In her childhood autobiography Homesick??My Own Story,Jean Fritz,an American missionary daughter,narrated her Chinese childhood memories,constructed and interpreted her own and other missionary kids'inner complicated childhood emotion by employing the devices of identity narration and literary fiction and the like.Meanwhile,this book shows clearly that,in comparison with other types of autobiography,memory,emotion,and identity in childhood autobiography present different characteristics and functions.It is such differences that constitute intrinsic characteristics of childhood autobiography and differentiate it from other types of autobiography.