摘要
在美国南方女作家卡森·麦卡勒斯的长篇小说处女作《心是孤独的猎手》中,空间意识贯穿始终。大多数评论家从美国南方哥特小说的传统出发,将作品里的空间意象视为幽闭、隔离的场所,从而忽视了其中的社会内涵。本文试图从空间与权力的关系入手,聚焦于小说中无名南方小镇、"纽约"咖啡馆、"阳光南部"游乐场等典型的空间意象,从社会空间和另类空间的两个层面,探讨隐匿在它们背后的权力机制、文化身份以及各种社会关系。这些多元空间错落有致,彼此角力,形成了一种动态的"套嵌式"的空间建构模式。由此,它们构成了一个权力相争的场域。
Spatial awareness pervades Carson McCullers＇ first novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Most critics interpret the places in the novel as images of ＂confinement＂ and ＂isolation＂, themes common to Southern Gothic literature. The social connotations of these places, however, have been overlooked. Focusing on its representation of a nameless small town in the South, the New York Cafo and the Sunny Dixie Show, this paper scrutinizes the novel to explore McCullers＇ construction of an embedded space where interconnected places not only confront but also complement one another, through which power mechanisms, cultural identities and social relations are produced and a site of power struggle came into being.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第4期27-33,共7页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
浙江省哲学社会科学规划一般课题"‘他者’视域下的卡森.麦卡勒斯小说研究"(13NDJC134YB)的阶段性成果
