《啊,拓荒者!》:“美国化”的灾难与成就  

Tragedies and Achievements of Americanization in O Pioneers!

作　　者：许燕[1] 

机构地区：[1]中南大学外国语学院

出　　处：《国外文学》2011年第4期133-141,共9页Foreign Literatures

基　　金：中央高校基本科研业务费项目(2010QN09);湖南省社科基金项目基金资助项目(2010WTB07)

摘　　要：《啊,拓荒者!》是薇拉·凯瑟的第一部边疆小说。小说通过再现美国化给瑞典移民伯格森一家带来的种种灾难与成就,完成了凯瑟有关"美国化"的意义建构。简而言之,她既不认同移民们绝然割裂与故国文化传统的关联、一味追求美国方式的"美国化",也不主张完全停留在旧世界、与新世界毫无关联的文化模式。主人公亚历山德拉是作者心目中移民"美国化"的理想典范的实现:既获得了作为一个美国人该有的开拓性想象力,又同时坚守故国的文化家园,拒绝被美国价值完全同化。O Pioneers!,Willa Cather＇s first frontier novel, tells a story of a Sweden immigrant family struggling to get rooted in America. Behind their tragedies and achievements, Cather elaborates her views on the Americanization of overseas immigrants. She condemns those who, departing completely from their old way of their homelands, pursue blindly the American way. At the same time, those who refuse to change and cling obstinately to the old world do not win her applause. Only Alexander, the heroine of the novel, who combines a new experimenting imagination, especially towards land, and a continuous maintenance of old traditions of her homeland, presents an ideal model of Americanization for overseas immigrants.

关 键 词：薇拉·凯瑟 《啊 拓荒者!》 移民 美国化 

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