摘要
在当代后种族主义文化语境之下,种族问题往往包含着性别隐喻。赵健秀的最后一部长篇小说《甘加丁之路》一以贯之将性别身份作为种族和政治抗议的手段。在小说中,赵健秀探讨了华裔美国男性在特定的文化和种族语域中面对的性属焦虑,进而运用性别政治式的文学抗争手段:安排华裔男性成为在场、设置独特的男性空间、设计阳刚十足的男性充当故事的主要动作者和叙述者等,以此打破亚裔男性被长期消音和扭曲的历史。本文借鉴修辞性叙事理论,采用文本分析和文化批评相结合的方法,研究作家凸显华裔美国男性气质和以性别身份强化政治抗议的叙事目的、文本的叙事手段和读者所感知的叙事效果之间的有机互动关系。
In the context of a putatively contemporary post-racial culture, racism is often represented through gender metaphors. Frank Chin＇s last novel Gunga Ding Highway explores Asian American men＇s gender anxiety and their struggles under unfavorable racial and cultural circumstances. Moreover, Chin resorts to gender politics as a literary act of revolt by inventing Chinese American male characters who, emerging from absence to presence, function as active narrators in a masculine cultural space. Drawing upon narrative theories, this paper locates Gunga Ding Highway in its historical context to examine Asian American masculinities favored by Chin and his gender politics, thereby analyzing the interplay between his political motivation, his narrative strategies and the reader＇s response.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第3期62-72,共11页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
国家社会科学基金项目"当代华裔美国文学叙事学研究"(编号:13CWW028)
中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金项目"华裔美国文学的叙事空间研究"(编号:DL13BCX02)和"赵健秀长篇小说的叙事特征研究"(编号:DL12BC12)的阶段性成果
