小说《骨》中美籍华人身份建构的后殖民主义解读
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【摘要】：1993年，美国华裔作家伍慧明以其处女作《骨》一炮走红于美国文坛。故事发生在旧金山华人街，主要围绕梁家展开：妈和利昂以及三个已经长大的女儿莱拉、安娜和尼娜。故事不可避免的涉及到了老一代华人与年轻华裔之间的冲突和矛盾和美籍华人在美国所遭受到的排斥和种族歧视。与之前那些倾向于在中美两种文化之间必选其一的移民文学或华裔美国文学作品不同，《骨》注重在这两种文化间找到一个“第三空间”，即一种变化不定的混合传统生活，，能够兼容华裔在美国的痛苦经历和他们的民族传统。 尽管美籍华人有别于那些曾沦为帝国主义奴隶的美洲印第安人、非洲土著人种，从未被帝国主义所奴役。但是华人在生活中却面临着与他们类似的困扰：历史记忆的缺失，身份危机，边缘地位，因而后殖民主义批评理论同样适用于华裔美国文学作品的解读。在后殖民主义理论框架下，本文运用后殖民身份认同和王灵智教授对华裔散居者心态的划分两个理论来分析伍慧明小说《骨》中三代人对于自己身份的动态的建构过程。本文认为由于三代人在美国的经历不同，他们对于自己的文化身份各自持有不同的态度，但不管是哪种心态，美籍华人都只有在经历在传统文化与美国文化中挣扎的窘境之后才能准确定义和建构自己的身份。老一代华人梁爷爷恪守中国传统，终身操劳也没有实现落叶归根的愿望。第二代华人，成长于社会的转型期，既无法摆脱上代的影响，也无法逃离美国主流社会的压迫和歧视，一直在努力建构自己的身份。新一代华裔从小接受美式教育和文化，了解中国文化的来源只有父母和唐人街，这就引发了他们对自我文化身份的新的思考。利昂一家的居住地—唐人街在某种意义上代表了传统的中国文化。一味恪守传统，或者一味逃离传统，都不利于华裔身份的重建。美籍华裔只有接受自己的双重文化背景，努力建立一种“你中有我，我中有你”的新型模式，才能真正解决其身份困惑，建构自己独立合适的文化身份。
[Abstract]:In 1993, Wu Huiming, a Chinese American writer, became famous in American literature for her first work, Bone. The story takes place on San Francisco's Chinese Street and revolves around the Liang family: mother and Leon and three grown up daughters Lila, An Na and Nina. The story inevitably involves the conflicts and contradictions between the older generation of Chinese and young Chinese, and the exclusion and racial discrimination of Chinese Americans in the United States. Unlike the previous immigrant literature or Chinese-American literature, which tended to choose between the two cultures, Bone focused on finding a "third space" between the two cultures, a mixed traditional life of uncertainty. Compatible with the suffering of Chinese in the United States and their national traditions. Although Chinese Americans were different from American Indians who had been slaves to imperialism, African aborigines were never enslaved by imperialism. However, the Chinese are faced with similar problems in their life: the loss of historical memory, the identity crisis, and the marginal position, so the theory of post-colonial criticism can also be applied to the interpretation of Chinese American literature. Within the framework of postcolonial theory, this paper uses the two theories of postcolonial identity and professor Wang Lingzhi's division of the mentality of Chinese diaspora to analyze the dynamic construction process of the three generations' identity in Wu Hui-ming 's novel "Bone". This paper argues that because of the three generations' experiences in the United States, they have different attitudes to their own cultural identity, but no matter what kind of mentality they have, Chinese Americans can define and construct their identity accurately only after they have experienced the dilemma of traditional culture and American culture. The older generation of Chinese grandfather Liang adhere to the Chinese tradition, lifelong labor did not achieve the desire to return to the roots of the fallen leaves. The second generation of Chinese, who grew up in the transition period of the society, could not get rid of the influence of the previous generation, nor could they escape the oppression and discrimination in the mainstream society of the United States, so they have been striving to construct their identity. The new generation of Chinese received American education and culture from an early age and learned that Chinese culture came from only parents and Chinatown, which led them to think about their own cultural identity. The Chinatown, the Lyons' residence, in a sense represents traditional Chinese culture. Blindly adhering to tradition, or blindly escaping from tradition, is not conducive to the reconstruction of Chinese identity. Only when Chinese Americans accept their own double cultural background and try to establish a new model of "you and I have you" can they really solve their identity confusion and construct their own independent and appropriate cultural identity.
【学位授予单位】：西安电子科技大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2012
【分类号】：I712.074
本文编号：2248601
[Abstract]:In 1993, Wu Huiming, a Chinese American writer, became famous in American literature for her first work, Bone. The story takes place on San Francisco's Chinese Street and revolves around the Liang family: mother and Leon and three grown up daughters Lila, An Na and Nina. The story inevitably involves the conflicts and contradictions between the older generation of Chinese and young Chinese, and the exclusion and racial discrimination of Chinese Americans in the United States. Unlike the previous immigrant literature or Chinese-American literature, which tended to choose between the two cultures, Bone focused on finding a "third space" between the two cultures, a mixed traditional life of uncertainty. Compatible with the suffering of Chinese in the United States and their national traditions. Although Chinese Americans were different from American Indians who had been slaves to imperialism, African aborigines were never enslaved by imperialism. However, the Chinese are faced with similar problems in their life: the loss of historical memory, the identity crisis, and the marginal position, so the theory of post-colonial criticism can also be applied to the interpretation of Chinese American literature. Within the framework of postcolonial theory, this paper uses the two theories of postcolonial identity and professor Wang Lingzhi's division of the mentality of Chinese diaspora to analyze the dynamic construction process of the three generations' identity in Wu Hui-ming 's novel "Bone". This paper argues that because of the three generations' experiences in the United States, they have different attitudes to their own cultural identity, but no matter what kind of mentality they have, Chinese Americans can define and construct their identity accurately only after they have experienced the dilemma of traditional culture and American culture. The older generation of Chinese grandfather Liang adhere to the Chinese tradition, lifelong labor did not achieve the desire to return to the roots of the fallen leaves. The second generation of Chinese, who grew up in the transition period of the society, could not get rid of the influence of the previous generation, nor could they escape the oppression and discrimination in the mainstream society of the United States, so they have been striving to construct their identity. The new generation of Chinese received American education and culture from an early age and learned that Chinese culture came from only parents and Chinatown, which led them to think about their own cultural identity. The Chinatown, the Lyons' residence, in a sense represents traditional Chinese culture. Blindly adhering to tradition, or blindly escaping from tradition, is not conducive to the reconstruction of Chinese identity. Only when Chinese Americans accept their own double cultural background and try to establish a new model of "you and I have you" can they really solve their identity confusion and construct their own independent and appropriate cultural identity.
【学位授予单位】：西安电子科技大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2012
【分类号】：I712.074
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