成长与梦想：《芒果街上的小屋》的女性成长解读
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【摘要】：成长是一个人人生中常见而不可或缺的阶段。在小说作品中,成长为主人公独立地面对现实世界提供了必要的知识、自信和能力。在文学界,成长小说近年来越来越成为一个常见的主题。研究者和学者们运用成长小说理论对大量文学作品从不同角度进行了分析解读。然而,对于美国作家桑德拉西斯内罗丝的小说《芒果街上的小屋》,目前则较少有研究者从成长小说的角度进行解读。该作品描写了美国墨西哥移民第二代小女孩埃斯佩朗莎成长的心路历程,在成长过程中,她经历挫折失败,实现顿悟已经明确梦想——去追寻少数族裔独特的女性身份。在这个过程中,她实现了自己的成长。 本论文以族裔问题和移民生活为背景,通过分析女主人公埃斯佩朗莎在移民社区的成长经历,指出她的成长过程是一个充满梦想的一段历程,反映了她追寻独特的少数族裔女性身份的渴望 《芒果街上的小屋》作为一部成长小说,主人公的成长故事是少数族裔所经历的典型；她成长中的困惑是墨西哥裔美国人的悲哀。如何摆脱种族差异带来的歧视,实现女性自我意识觉醒,对族裔女性而言是一大挑战,也是一条艰难险阻的路。然而主人公没有畏惧,她有理想、有追求独立自主的意识。在身边人物的影响下、在日常生活的点滴中,主人公对自己和社会有了更全面的认识,她不愿再被束缚,渴望改变命运,并且有高度的使命感,愿意为整个族裔能更好的发展做贡献。小说中的埃斯佩朗莎通过对芒果街的故事势必将会激励各少数族裔群体努力奋斗,获得知识,改变命运。 为了使得该论点更加清晰明白,本论文以女性成长为视角,解读女主人公的梦想,展现她是通过什么样的方式以及如果在最终去实现自己的梦想和追求的。通过追溯成长小说在德国和美国的起源以及发展,本论文指出该小说属于女性成长小说范畴。其次,通过分析女主人公埃斯佩朗莎所面临的身份危机,我们能够发现她成长的环境是多么的糟糕：贫穷、种族差异、性别歧视以及自我价值的迷茫。同时,女主人公梦想的发展在其成长过程中具有重要的作用,因为这个过程见证了她追求梦想与独特身份的坎坷与艰辛。因此,在成长引路人与成长伙伴的影响下,以及在经历坎坷曲折和实现顿悟之后,埃斯佩朗莎最终明确了自己的梦想方向,找到了实现梦想的途径。 整篇论文由五部分组成,包括绪论、两个主要章节和结论部分。 绪论部分首先介绍了小说《芒果街上的小屋》的相关背景材料和文学评论,同时对作者桑德拉·希斯内罗丝(Sandra Cisneros)创作小说的背景及其写作生涯,其成名作《芒果街上的小屋》与文中的主人公等做了介绍。此外,本部分还讨论了该小说的研究价值,并介绍了整篇论文的思路。 第二章以经典成长小说与美国成长小说为中心,厘清教育小说和成长小说的异同,试图通过追溯成长小说的起源来梳理成长小说的发展脉络和其作为美国版的教育小说对美国作家创作的影响。美国成长小说植根于美国文化的丰腴土壤之中,有着其自身的特征与吸引力。而作为一部女性成长小说,《芒果街上的小屋》为我们展现了一幅小女孩埃斯佩朗莎成长的生动画面。 第三章主要论及《芒果街上的小屋》中美籍墨裔女性成长的心路历程。小说的女主人公埃斯佩朗莎是作者塑造的一个带有半自传性质的人物。在成长中,埃斯佩朗莎碰到了形形色色的人,有家人,有朋友,也有陌生人。芒果街上的居住环境和接触的各色人群让小主人公的成长带有更多的童话色彩。在她的意识中,房子就是家的象征,是她对温暖和幸福的向往。与此同时,埃斯佩朗莎的女性意识也在逐渐觉醒,她开始认真审视自己的女性身份,以及对族裔状况的思考。 结语部分总结了全文的内容。该部分总结了女主人公埃斯佩朗莎在经过一番跌宕起伏的成长过程之后,最终意识到自己的追求和梦想是什么：放弃白人文化灌输给她的,把拥有一幢漂亮的白色大房子来作为定义自身价值的标准,转而寻找或者营造一个属于自己的空间；拒绝大多数多女性希望通过婚姻来改变自己命运的想法,而是通过自身的努力来改变自己的命运,对她而言就是写作；拒绝被限制在狭窄的墨西哥社区,而是选择走出去,学习主流文化并与之对话,希望在自己成长之后能够回来帮助她身边的墨西哥裔人。
[Abstract]:Growth is a common and indispensable stage in one's life. In fiction, growth provides the protagonist with the necessary knowledge, confidence and ability to face the real world independently. In literary circles, initiation stories have become a more and more common theme in recent years. Researchers and scholars have applied the initiation story theory to a large number of literary works. However, few researchers interpret Sandra Cisneros's novel The Cabin on Mango Street from the perspective of initiation stories. The novel describes the growth of Esperanza, the second generation of Mexican immigrants. She has experienced setbacks and failures, realizing an epiphany that has made clear her dream of pursuing the unique female identity of the ethnic minority. In the process, she has achieved her own growth.
Based on the background of ethnic problems and immigrant life, this paper analyzes the growth experience of the heroine Esperanza in the immigrant community, and points out that her growth process is a dream-filled process, reflecting her desire to pursue a unique minority female identity.
As a Bildungsroman, the protagonist's growth story is typical of ethnic minorities; her growing confusion is the sadness of Mexican Americans. How to get rid of racial discrimination and realize the awakening of women's self-consciousness is a great challenge and a difficult obstacle for ethnic women. However, the protagonist is not afraid, she has the ideal, the pursuit of independent consciousness. Under the influence of the people around her, in daily life, the protagonist has a more comprehensive understanding of herself and society, she is no longer bound, eager to change her destiny, and has a high sense of mission, willing to contribute to the better development of the entire ethnic group. By telling the story of Mango Street, Esperanza is bound to inspire ethnic minorities to strive, acquire knowledge and change their destiny.
In order to make this argument clearer, this paper interprets the heroine's dream from the perspective of female growth, and shows how she realizes her dream and pursuit in the end. Secondly, by analyzing the identity crisis faced by the heroine Esperanza, we can find out how terrible the environment in which she grew up: poverty, racial differences, sexism and confusion of self-worth. At the same time, the development of the heroine's dream plays an important role in her growth because of this process. She has witnessed the frustrations and hardships of her pursuit of her dreams and unique identity. Therefore, under the influence of the growth guide and the growth partner, and after experiencing the frustrations and twists and realizing the insight, Esperanza finally defined her dream direction and found the way to realize her dream.
The whole paper consists of five parts, including introduction, two main chapters and conclusion.
The introduction first introduces the background materials and literary reviews of the novel The House on Mango Street, and then introduces the background and career of Sandra Cisneros, his famous novel The House on Mango Street, and the hero of the novel. The value of the research and the idea of the whole paper are introduced.
Chapter Two focuses on the classical Bildungsroman and the American Bildungsroman to clarify the similarities and differences between the educational novels and the Bildungsroman, and tries to trace the origin of the Bildungsroman to sort out the development of Bildungsroman and its impact on American writers as an American Educational Novel. The American Bildungsroman is rooted in the rich soil of American culture. In the soil, it has its own characteristics and attraction. As a female initiation novel, The Cabin on Mango Street shows us a vivid picture of the growth of the little girl Esperanza.
Chapter Three focuses on the growth of Chinese and American Mexican women in The Cabin on Mango Street. Esperanza, the heroine of the novel, is a semi-autobiographical character portrayed by the author. In her mind, the house is the symbol of home and her yearning for warmth and happiness. Meanwhile, Esperanza's feminine consciousness is gradually awakening, and she begins to seriously examine her own female identity, as well as thinking about ethnic conditions.
This part summarizes the heroine Esperanza's ups and downs, and finally realizes what her pursuit and dream is: to give up the white culture and instill it into her, to own a beautiful white house as a criterion for defining her own value, and to turn to To find or create a space of her own; to reject the idea that most women want to change their destiny through marriage, but through their own efforts to change their destiny, is to her writing; to refuse to be confined to a narrow Mexican community, but to choose to go out and learn the mainstream culture and talk to it, I hope that I can come back to help the people of Mexico after her growth.
【学位授予单位】：安徽大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2012
【分类号】：I712.074
本文编号：2242163
[Abstract]:Growth is a common and indispensable stage in one's life. In fiction, growth provides the protagonist with the necessary knowledge, confidence and ability to face the real world independently. In literary circles, initiation stories have become a more and more common theme in recent years. Researchers and scholars have applied the initiation story theory to a large number of literary works. However, few researchers interpret Sandra Cisneros's novel The Cabin on Mango Street from the perspective of initiation stories. The novel describes the growth of Esperanza, the second generation of Mexican immigrants. She has experienced setbacks and failures, realizing an epiphany that has made clear her dream of pursuing the unique female identity of the ethnic minority. In the process, she has achieved her own growth.
Based on the background of ethnic problems and immigrant life, this paper analyzes the growth experience of the heroine Esperanza in the immigrant community, and points out that her growth process is a dream-filled process, reflecting her desire to pursue a unique minority female identity.
As a Bildungsroman, the protagonist's growth story is typical of ethnic minorities; her growing confusion is the sadness of Mexican Americans. How to get rid of racial discrimination and realize the awakening of women's self-consciousness is a great challenge and a difficult obstacle for ethnic women. However, the protagonist is not afraid, she has the ideal, the pursuit of independent consciousness. Under the influence of the people around her, in daily life, the protagonist has a more comprehensive understanding of herself and society, she is no longer bound, eager to change her destiny, and has a high sense of mission, willing to contribute to the better development of the entire ethnic group. By telling the story of Mango Street, Esperanza is bound to inspire ethnic minorities to strive, acquire knowledge and change their destiny.
In order to make this argument clearer, this paper interprets the heroine's dream from the perspective of female growth, and shows how she realizes her dream and pursuit in the end. Secondly, by analyzing the identity crisis faced by the heroine Esperanza, we can find out how terrible the environment in which she grew up: poverty, racial differences, sexism and confusion of self-worth. At the same time, the development of the heroine's dream plays an important role in her growth because of this process. She has witnessed the frustrations and hardships of her pursuit of her dreams and unique identity. Therefore, under the influence of the growth guide and the growth partner, and after experiencing the frustrations and twists and realizing the insight, Esperanza finally defined her dream direction and found the way to realize her dream.
The whole paper consists of five parts, including introduction, two main chapters and conclusion.
The introduction first introduces the background materials and literary reviews of the novel The House on Mango Street, and then introduces the background and career of Sandra Cisneros, his famous novel The House on Mango Street, and the hero of the novel. The value of the research and the idea of the whole paper are introduced.
Chapter Two focuses on the classical Bildungsroman and the American Bildungsroman to clarify the similarities and differences between the educational novels and the Bildungsroman, and tries to trace the origin of the Bildungsroman to sort out the development of Bildungsroman and its impact on American writers as an American Educational Novel. The American Bildungsroman is rooted in the rich soil of American culture. In the soil, it has its own characteristics and attraction. As a female initiation novel, The Cabin on Mango Street shows us a vivid picture of the growth of the little girl Esperanza.
Chapter Three focuses on the growth of Chinese and American Mexican women in The Cabin on Mango Street. Esperanza, the heroine of the novel, is a semi-autobiographical character portrayed by the author. In her mind, the house is the symbol of home and her yearning for warmth and happiness. Meanwhile, Esperanza's feminine consciousness is gradually awakening, and she begins to seriously examine her own female identity, as well as thinking about ethnic conditions.
This part summarizes the heroine Esperanza's ups and downs, and finally realizes what her pursuit and dream is: to give up the white culture and instill it into her, to own a beautiful white house as a criterion for defining her own value, and to turn to To find or create a space of her own; to reject the idea that most women want to change their destiny through marriage, but through their own efforts to change their destiny, is to her writing; to refuse to be confined to a narrow Mexican community, but to choose to go out and learn the mainstream culture and talk to it, I hope that I can come back to help the people of Mexico after her growth.
【学位授予单位】：安徽大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2012
【分类号】：I712.074
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