新移民英语“文革”叙事与东方主义  

New Immigrants' Cultural Revolution Narratives and Orientalism

作　　者：邬晓丽[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海理工大学外语学院,上海200093

出　　处：《上海理工大学学报（社会科学版）》2011年第2期116-120,共5页Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology：Social Sciences Edition

摘　　要：介绍了最近几十年在美国读者市场风靡一时的新移民英语"文革"叙事作品,指出了导致这些作品呈现东方主义色彩的3个主要原因,即出版市场的强大制约、对自传体裁的过分偏爱以及对中国套话的过度使用。同时,在剖析了运用东方主义理论话语对此类作品进行的批评后认为,一方面,东方主义理论可以在某种程度上对这一创作现象进行合理解释;另一方面,过度的阐释和偏见也容易导致对作品进行过分简单解读的倾向。This paper introduces the Cultural Revolution narratives written in the English language, which has been very popular on US reader market in recent decades, by the so-called New Immigrants. The author lists three elements accountable for the obvious orientalism in these narratives, namely, the restriction of the publishing market, the extra preference for autobiography and the overuse of stereotypes about China. Meanwhile, after closely analyzing the relevant criticism which employs orientalism discourse to interpret these Cultural Revolution narratives, the author contends that, on the one hand, orientalism theory can, to some degree, appropriately interpret this particular literary phenomenon; on the other hand, overinterpretation and prejudice could also lead to oversimplified reading of these works.

关 键 词：新移民 “文革”叙事 东方主义 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]