摘要
空间概念是加拿大文学的一个关键定义,位于乡村与城市中间的小镇则成为加拿大性的重要地理表征。本文以艾丽丝·门罗的《钱德利家族和弗莱明家族》为例,考量影响加拿大文化安全的多重因素:以英格兰为代表的商业传统,以苏格兰、爱尔兰、法国为代表的农业传统,遥远欧洲的精英主义传统,以及近在咫尺的美国大众消费文化。夹于中间的身份上的边缘性既是人物自我危机的根源,亦是重构秩序的力量。包含在对立格局中的加拿大地域文学的核心精神,便是超越了边缘—中心的后殖民态度。
The whole Canadian Literature is defined by its sense of place,while the town,with its geographical position between the country and the city,becomes a very pertinent spatial representation of Canadianness.The paper,by taking Alice Munro's 'Chaddeleys and Flemings' as an example,examines the multiple factors that affect Canadian cultural security: the contention between the business tradition of England and the agricultural tradition of Scotland,Ireland,and France,and the rivalry between the elitist tradition of faraway Europe and the consumer culture of the nearby United States.The sense of marginality,of 'in-between,' not only causes the identity crisis of the characters,but also promises a power of reconstruction.The critical core of Canadian regional literature that lies in opposition to a unified national literature is the post-colonial posture that challenges the logocentrism.
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2012年第5期3-10,157,共8页
Foreign Literature
