塑造与被塑造——论《在美国》中自我塑造的矛盾性  

A Paradox of Self-fashioning:On Susan Sontag’s In America

作　　者：柯英[1] 

机构地区：[1]苏州科技学院

出　　处：《当代外语研究》2011年第9期48-52,61,共5页Contemporary Foreign Language Studies

基　　金：江苏省哲学社会科学基金项目“苏珊·桑塔格叙事艺术研究”(项目编号09WWD014)的阶段性成果

摘　　要：《在美国》是苏珊·桑塔格的最后一部长篇小说，它虚构并改编于真实的人物和事件的。本文围绕“自我塑造，，这一概念，从女主人公对自我塑造的急切诉求、逃逸与征服的梦想及其自我塑造的代价三个方面分析小说文本，说明女主人公最终背离了自我塑造的愿望，在美国社会的影响下被塑造成一个消费符号。桑塔格以古喻今，对移民身份重构的困境和在精神家园的流亡予以了深切的关注。Susan Sontag's last novel In America is based on real historical figures and events.The paper,evolving around the concept 'self-fashioning',analyzes the heroine's urgent need of self-fashioning,her dream of escape and conquest and the price she paid for self-fashioning,revealing that the heroine's original wish to refashion a new self failed and that she was ultimately modeled into a consumption symbol.By availing of the historical materials,Sontag turned her concerning eyes to the present plight in which the immigrants are trapped when they try to reconstruct their identity but only to find themselves spiritual exiles in a new country.

关 键 词：自我塑造 被塑造 矛盾性 精神流亡 

分 类 号：I106.4[文学—世界文学]