论《典型的美国佬》中文化身份的杂糅性

发布时间：2018-08-22 10:25

【摘要】：美国华裔作家任碧莲是一名出生在纽约的第二代华裔美国人,她曾先后在哈佛大学和斯坦福大学商学院学习。《典型的美国佬》是她的第一部长篇小说。小说以“这是一个美国故事”为开端,成功地把读者引入到一个华裔美国移民的家庭,并同他们一起感受到了作为一个外来的“他者”在这块白人的土地上寻梦时的酸甜苦辣。作者在小说中成功的运用了杂糅理论,让华裔移民重新审视对典型美国身份的认识。通过研究分析其他华裔文学作品,我们不难发现,文化身份的书写是长期以来一直出现在各个时期的华裔作家作品中的一个主题。但在这一主题上,不同的华裔作家都有着自己不同的观点。早期作家黄玉雪主张主动融入美国社会,但赵建秀却强烈反对此观点,主张保持自己原有的文化身份。作为现代华裔作家代表之一的汤婷婷则主张从中国神话传统的角度去书写文化身份。然而任碧莲却在小说《典型的美国佬》中成功实现了人物文化身份杂糅性的书写。因此本论文将运用霍米·巴巴的杂糅理论来分析任碧莲在《典型的美国佬》中是如何让张家人以“他者”身份在美国复杂的社会中,实现文化身份的重新构建,最后形成其独特的杂糅文化身份的。以此说明了只有多元文化的共存协同发展才是多元文化大背景下的必然选择,而盲目的追随某种文化只会产生悲剧和灾难。论文主体共分为三章,第一章阐述了华裔美国文学中的身份书写问题,通过时代背景分析和与其他华裔作家身份书写进行对比,并结合霍米·巴巴的身份观以展示任碧莲在多元文化背景下文化身份书写上的独特见解。第二章通过小说主要人物拉尔夫,海伦以及特雷萨身上体现的中国传统文化来分析张家人初到美国时的中国身份。以及其作为华裔美国人在美国所遇到的各种身份困境,而这些困境则可以看作是促使他们追寻美国文化身份的主要原因。第三章将主要论证分析任碧莲是如何逐步实现对张家人杂糅文化身份的书写的,即在盲目追寻美国文化身份的梦想破灭后,张家人认识到自己对此的错误认识,开始重新构建属于自己的混杂文化身份。
[Abstract]:Chinese American writer Ren Bi-lian is a second-generation Chinese-American born in New York. She studied at Harvard University and Stanford University Business School successively. "typical American" is her first novel. Starting with "this is an American Story", the novel successfully introduces the reader to a family of Chinese-American immigrants and shares with them the joys and sorrows of finding dreams in this white land as an alien "other". The author successfully applies the theory of hybridity in the novel, which makes Chinese immigrants reexamine their understanding of the typical American identity. Through the study and analysis of other Chinese literary works, it is not difficult to find that the writing of cultural identity is a theme in the works of Chinese writers in various periods for a long time. However, on this subject, different Chinese writers have their own different views. Huang Yuxue, an early writer, advocated active integration into American society, but Zhao strongly objected to this view and maintained his original cultural identity. As one of the representatives of modern Chinese writers, Kingston advocates writing cultural identity from the perspective of Chinese mythological tradition. However, Ren Bi-lian successfully realized the mixed writing of cultural identity in the novel "the typical Yankee". Therefore, this paper will use Hermie Baba's hybrid theory to analyze how Ren Bi-lian reconstructs her cultural identity in the "other" status of the Zhang family in the complex society of the United States. Finally, it forms its unique mixed cultural identity. This shows that only the coexistence and coordinated development of multiculturalism is the inevitable choice under the background of multiculturalism, and blindly following a certain culture will only lead to tragedy and disaster. The main body of the thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter expounds the identity writing in Chinese American literature, and compares it with other Chinese writers' identity writing through the analysis of the background of the times. Combined with Homi Baba's concept of identity, Ren Bi-lian 's unique views on the writing of cultural identity under the background of multiculturalism are demonstrated. The second chapter analyzes the Chinese identity of the Zhang family when they first arrived in the United States through the traditional Chinese culture embodied in Ralph, Helen and Theresa. These difficulties can be regarded as the main reasons for their pursuit of American cultural identity. The third chapter will mainly demonstrate and analyze how Ren Bilian gradually realized the writing of the mixed cultural identity of the Zhang family, that is, after the blind pursuit of the dream of American cultural identity, the Zhang family realized their wrong understanding of this. Began to rebuild their own mixed cultural identity.
【学位授予单位】：四川师范大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2012
【分类号】：I712.074

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