评裘小龙英语小说“上海侦探三部曲”里的现实叙事  

On the Realistic Narrative in Qiu Xiaolong's Detective Trilogy on Shanghai

作　　者：卫景宜[1] 

机构地区：[1]暨南大学外国语言文学研究所

出　　处：《英美文学研究论丛》2009年第2期239-255,共17页English and American Literary Studies

基　　金：教育部人文社科规划项目"当代美国华裔文学中的文化意象差异性研究"(06JA75047)成果之一

摘　　要：大陆赴美留学生作家裘小龙以描写当代中国题材的侦探小说进入西方文化市场,开辟了一条华裔写作的新路向。裘小龙小说所显示的社会与文化关注超越了一般概念的侦探小说。裘小龙的三部系列小说以改革开放后的上海作为背景,描述了这座城市的发展、变化及其间所发生的种种故事。小说中,作者透过两种视角来表述现实:一个是由众多个体人生发展的小叙事汇聚而成的转型期中国脉络;另一个是与现实保持互动的历史文化传统。本文以小说里中国古典诗歌的引用和人物刻画为切入点,讨论小说的"现实叙事"对于文化记忆和社会历史的多重投射关系。作者通过诗歌表现中华历史与文化的源远流长,通过人物命运揭示历史与现实的关联性。小说里的"现实叙事"旨在提醒人们对历史和记忆保持敏感,并对社会变革中的个体命运给予关注。With his detective novels based on the present-day China context, Qiu Xiaolong,the America's mainland-China immigrant writer,has opened up a new path of international writing for the overseas Chinese writers.However, the social and cultural dimensions of his novels go beyond the common boundary of the detective genre.Employing the opening-up Shanghai as its background,his detective trilogy describes the drastic social changes and the individual's life stories happened there.This paper focuses on the author's unique perspective in his representation of the reality—a reflection through combined levels:a big narrative as a fast moving transitional society,individual narratives composed of many personal articulations,and at the same time a long historical and cultural tradition maintaining an active interaction with the present.This paper points out that the reality in Qiu's novel world is projected through multiple angles of culture,history and memory.In his novels,the Chinese classic poetry represents the cultural tradition,while the individual character is the entity alive bearing the burden of the past.By calling for an awareness of the past and memory,the author places his ultimate concerns on those individuals that are often likely to be affected or neglected in the period of fast social changes.

关 键 词：上海侦探三部曲 现实叙事 历史记忆与多重投射 

分 类 号：I207.42[文学—中国文学]