摘要
日本战后女作家大庭美奈子旅居美国阿拉斯加十多年,对美国社会内部存在的少数族裔问题有着深刻的体察。《图腾的海边》的背景设置在1970年日本大阪举办世界博览会前夕,美国政府令印第安部落特里吉特族在大阪世界博览会上参展本民族的图腾柱。在战后日美关系日趋密切以及大阪世界博览会“人类的进步与和谐”这一宏大、崇高的口号下,大庭美奈子以印第安少数族裔的文化符号图腾柱为切入点,通过三位拥有不同身份和文化背景的出场人物的神话叙事,映射出了美国少数族裔正面临着的多重生存困境,极具反讽意味。小说中出场人物立场迥异的神话叙事中透露出隐含在叙述者思维模式中的生态观念,通过考察小说神话叙事中的生态观点以及伦理表达,能够深刻感受到作家在作品中揭露当代少数族裔生存困境的可贵勇气,体察到作家在批判强势文化压迫、蚕食弱者文化之时所秉持的环境正义。
Oba Minako(1930-2007)was a Japanese postwar female writer who had lived in Alaska for more than 10 years.She had deep insights into the ethnic problems in American society.The background of The Seashore of Totem is just before the Osaka World Expo in 1970,and the American government issued an order that the Tredgett tribe of Indians should exhibit unique totem poles of its own at this Expo.Under the circumstance of the increasingly intimate Japan-US relationship and the grand and noble slogan of“the progress and harmony of mankind”of the Osaka World Expo,the writer used the totem poles of the Indian minority as the breakthrough point,providing the mythological narration of the characters with three different identities and cultural backgrounds,and depicted the multiple survival dilemma faced by American ethnic minorities,which had tremendous ironic significance.The mythological narration of the characters of various stands in the novel revealed the hidden ecological viewpoints in the narrator's mind.The study of the ecological view points and ethical expression can clearly outline the valuable courage in exposing the contemporary minorities’survival problems and the justice in criticizing the overwhelming cultures'oppression and nibbling over the weak cultures.
作者
侯冬梅
Hou Dongmei(Qufu Normal University)
出处
《日语教育与日本学》
2022年第2期1-12,共12页
Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies
关键词
大庭美奈子
《图腾的海边》
神话叙事
伦理美学
Oba Minako
The Seashore of Totem
mythological narration
ethical Aeathetics
