摘要
一直以来,华裔美国教育/成长小说大多以先进的西方教育模式为参照,批判中国式教育的落后。然而,育子回忆录《虎妈战歌》一书开篇翻转普世价值观,认为中国妈妈优于西方妈妈,引发中美两国媒体热议。文章将这部育子回忆录纳入教育小说范畴,围绕作品的时间维度,揭示开篇西方中心翻转,与育子故事过程、结尾之间的矛盾与张力。故事本身并非东西二元对立的陈词滥调,呈现的是在五湖四海、东与西、中与美教育理念之间的矛盾与摇摆,这种模糊性为中国教育理论的文化寻根问题提供了借鉴与反思。《虎妈战歌》选择中国妈妈作为身份认同,主要缘于中国地缘经济地位的不断上升,中国妈妈成为热议话题。这种策略性选择,却遮蔽和抑制了纷繁多样的跨国、跨种族和跨文化育子生活图景。由此也暴露了全球化时代,由于地缘政治演变,资本主义社会固有矛盾的进一步加剧。
Western education has been acclaimed as the model around the world so that the traditional Chinese American education has been criticized in the Chinese American education novels. However, the tiny parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reverses this general value. It is supposed that theChinese mothers are superior to the western ones in the beginning part of the novel which reverses universal Eurocentric awareness that most of Chinese American writers try to convey in their works. It＇ s also the first time for Chinese American writers to give Chinese parenting advises with great confidence in western society through family music education training and performance in different metropolis around the world. This essay attempts to examine the overlapping tension of the beginning, the process and the end of the story ignored both by media and scholars present in this parenting book with complicated transnational, intercultural, intermarriage and interracial background in global times within the frame of novel of education. What the story conveys is the author＇s dilemma and ambiguity between the binary dichotomy and cosmopolitanism. Both culture icons ＂tiger mother＂ and ＂the Chinese mother＂ might be the only way to initiate the fiery debate as a strategy of figurative language for the rise of China＇s geopolitical position. It is determined by the innate tension among economics, politics and art in international capital society. But the parenting life which might generate the abstract art and theory is hidden and repressed.
出处
《教育学术月刊》
北大核心
2016年第2期21-26,共6页
Education Research Monthly
基金
江西省教育科学"十二五"规划课题"美国少数族裔文学作品叙事中的教育方式研究(华裔篇)"(课题编号:14ZD3L009)
关键词
虎妈战歌
五湖四海
东西两极
跨国
跨文化
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, cosmopolitanism, east and west, transnation, cross- culture
