漂泊的心灵 失落的个人——评苏珊·桑塔格的小说《在美国》

Identity crisis: On Susan Sontag' s In America

苏珊·桑塔格的小说《在美国》讲述了一个波兰女演员离开舞台移民美国、创建乌托邦社区失败后重返舞台大获成功的故事。后殖民批评的有关理论认为:女主人公虽然最终在美国舞台上赢得了凯旋,但其身份的混杂所导致的认同危机依旧搁置。她在美国的经历实质上是从一个民族主义者向个人主义者的转变。桑塔格写作的宗旨在于对现代社会中流亡者身份认同的质疑。

This paper presents a tentative study on Susan Sontag s novel In America from the perspective of post-colonial criticism. It arrives at the conclusion that, although the Polish Heroine undergoing the transformation from a nationalist to an individualist has made a smash hit in America, yet her success is tinged with a color of melancholy for her unresolved crisis of identity, which embodies Sontag' s meditation on the phenomenon of exile.