摘要
在辛格的短篇小说中,"阁楼"是出现次数最多的意象之一,可谓辛格小说中最为常见的道具符号。本文从"阁楼"的设置、"阁楼"中的光景和"阁楼"的隐喻三个文化符号链入手,论证与犹太主人公,特别是城市犹太知识分子相伴相随的"阁楼",在辛格小说中具有的属性:指价格便宜的住所,即借地域的偏僻和混乱隐喻犹太人的廉价、精神上的偏离和不入流;指在历史上屡遭创伤的犹太人,通过"阁楼"的方式与社会、他人相疏离、隔绝,以实现自我保护。总之,辛格借用"阁楼",隐喻了犹太人长期以来被社会所漠视、排斥和驱赶,最后不得不在远离中心和人群的角落苦苦挣扎的现实。
"Attic"is one of the images that appears most frequently in Singer’s short stories and thus becomes a most common props symbol. Approaching from the three chain cultural symbols,namely,the placement of attic,the sights in the attic and the metaphor of the attic,this article sets to reveal the properties of "attic"that always accompanies the Jewish protagonists,particularly the Jewish city intellectuals. To be specific,the cheap residences,or rather the isolated and chaotic places that the Jews rent to live in,symbolize the Jews’ lower and marginalized social position. Also,it offers a hiding place for Jews,who have suffered tremendously in history,to isolate themselves from others and the mainstream society so as to protect themselves. Singer’s"attic"metaphorically mirrors the reality that Jews who have long been ignored,repelled and expelled by the main stream of the society and struggled bitterly in the isolated corners of the society.
出处
《外语与外语教学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2021年第2期130-137,F0003,共9页
Foreign Languages and Their Teaching
基金
国家社科基金项目“当代美国少数族裔文学中的创伤书写与引路人的疗伤机制研究”(项目编号:19BWW087)的阶段性成果。
关键词
辛格
阁楼
意象
边缘人
孤独
I.B.Singer
attic
symbol
marginalized people
loneliness
