裘帕∙拉希莉《不适之地》中的空间建构与伦理书写

外国文学研究 ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 62-72.

裘帕∙拉希莉《不适之地》中的空间建构与伦理书写

袁雪生

出版日期:2020-12-25 发布日期:2021-02-05
作者简介:袁雪生,江南大学外国语学院教授,主要从事当代美国文学研究。
基金资助:
国家社科基金一般项目“印度裔美国女作家小说创作研究”（16BWW084）; 江西省社科规划项目“裘帕∙拉希莉小说的伦理阐释”（15WX04）

Spatial Construction and Ethical Writing in Jhumpa Lahiri's “Unaccustomed Earth”

Yuan Xuesheng

Online:2020-12-25 Published:2021-02-05
About author:Yuan Xuesheng is a professor at the School of Foreign Studies, Jiangnan University (Wuxi 214122, China), specializing in contemporary American literature. Email:yuanxsh2005@163.com
Supported by:
“Research on the Fiction Writing of Indian American Women Writers”(16BWW084) sponsored by National Social Science Fund of China;“An Ethical Interpretation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction”(15WX04) sponsored by Social Science Fund of Jiangxi Province

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 印度裔美国作家裘帕∙拉希莉的短篇小说《不适之地》围绕叙事的空间置换、人物的空间迁移和文本的空间建构,聚焦族裔存在空间,凭借多种空间意象和空间隐喻表达伦理主题、凸显作品的伦理蕴涵。拉希莉通过刻画几代印度移民在美国的生存困境和身份焦虑,再现了他们的伦理选择和伦理意识的回归,实现了对族裔历史的追溯和空间归属的确认,表达了族裔作家的伦理诉求。拉希莉的小说揭示了文本多维空间架构与主题表达的密切关系,探讨全球化背景下美国印度族裔面临的流散、空间、身份和伦理等诸多问题,体现了作家对美国印度移民族群的关注,展现了空间叙事的伦理价值。

关键词: 裘帕∙拉希莉, 《不适之地》, 空间建构, 伦理书写

Abstract: Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story, “Unaccustomed Earth”, centers around its narrative’s shift in space, its characters’ movement in space, its textual construction of space, so as to bring into focus the existential space for ethnic groups on the one hand and, on the other, addresses ethical themes, highlights ethical implications through a variety of spatial images, metaphors. By delineating how the Indian immigrants in multiple generations confront their dilemmatic living condition, their anxiety over identity in America, Lahiri represents their ethical choices, the return of their ethical consciousness, the retrospection of their ethnic history, the affirmation of their spatial belonging, hence articulates the ethical pursuit of ethnic writers. Lahiri’s story reveals the close relationship between the multidimensional spatial structure of the text, the representation of the theme. Also, it explores issues like diaspora, space, identity, ethics faced by the Indian American community in the age of globalization, reflecting the author’s concern with the Indian immigrants in America, demonstrating the ethical value of spatial narrative

Key words: Lahiri, “Unaccustomed Earth”, spatial construction, ethical writing

袁雪生. 裘帕∙拉希莉《不适之地》中的空间建构与伦理书写[J]. 外国文学研究, 2020, 42(6): 62-72.

Yuan Xuesheng. Spatial Construction and Ethical Writing in Jhumpa Lahiri's “Unaccustomed Earth”[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2020, 42(6): 62-72.

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