《大地》中赛珍珠对中国文化的理解与曲解

发布时间：2018-03-03 01:34

本文选题：赛珍珠　切入点：《大地》　出处：《上海外国语大学》2017年硕士论文　论文类型：学位论文

【摘要】：赛珍珠(1892-1973)系美国作家,于中国长大,在中国生活了约四十年。她的小说《大地》的背景是中国社会,小说的主角是中国人。本文通过文本细读分析并批判性地评论了赛珍珠在《大地》中对中国文化的叙述。本文指出了《大地》中的中国形象与真实的中国之间的异同,并分析了其异同的原因。本文指出,赛珍珠从小在中国生活长大并对中国文化和中国人民具有一定的感情,她在小说中运用了文化相对主义而不是文化帝国主义的观念来看待中国文化;在《大地》中,赛珍珠用中国人的视角对很多中国农村风俗进行了细致而准确的描写,她富有同情地描写了中国农民,她的小说在一定程度上纠正了美国人早期对中国的东方刻板印象,加深了美国公众对中国和中国人的熟悉程度。但赛珍珠未能在小说中反映二十世纪初当代中国的社会现实和中国的民族解放斗争,这是因为她的隐含读者是美国公众,美国公众对中国文化了解较少,对中国复杂的社会状况的呈现将会使小说失去一部分美国读者;赛珍珠在小说中刻意简化描写中国文化并淡化当时中国的社会政治历史背景,以促进这本小说在美国读者中的可理解性和可读性。赛珍珠在小说中用艺术手法而非写实的手法将她的中国素材塑造成一部具有普遍主题的小说,这有利于她的小说在不同文化中的传播。《大地》是赛珍珠的一部艺术创作作品,它与中国的历史语境不符。小说中的中国元素是小说的表面现象,小说的深层框架是一部具有普遍性的全人类的故事。
[Abstract]:Pearl Buck is an American writer who grew up in China and lived in China for about forty years. Her novel the Earth is set in Chinese society. The protagonist of the novel is Chinese. This paper analyzes and criticizes Pearl Buck's narration of Chinese culture in the Earth, and points out the similarities and differences between the Chinese image and the real China. The paper points out that Pearl Buck grew up in China and has a certain affection for Chinese culture and Chinese people. In her novels, she uses the concept of cultural relativism rather than cultural imperialism to view Chinese culture. In the Earth, Pearl Buck describes many Chinese rural customs in detail and accurately from the perspective of the Chinese people. She wrote sympathetically about Chinese farmers, and her novels, to some extent, corrected the early American stereotypes of the East. But Pearl Buck fails to reflect in her novel the social realities of contemporary China in early 20th century and China's national liberation struggle, because her implied readers are the American public. The American public has little knowledge of Chinese culture, and the presentation of China's complicated social situation will make the novel lose some American readers. In the novel, Pearl Buck deliberately simplifies the description of Chinese culture and weakens the social and political historical background of China at that time. In order to promote the comprehensibility and readability of the novel among American readers, Pearl Buck portrays her Chinese material as a novel with universal themes in the novel by artistic rather than realistic means. This is conducive to the spread of her novels in different cultures. The Earth is an artistic creation of Pearl Buck, which is incompatible with the historical context of China. The Chinese element in the novel is the superficial phenomenon of the novel. The deep frame of the novel is a universal story of all mankind.
【学位授予单位】：上海外国语大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2017
【分类号】：I712.074

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