现代性与民族性之间——20世纪50—70年代美国华文文学中的西方城市书写  

Between Modernity and Nationality:Western Cities in Chinese American Sinophone Literature

作　　者：蔡晓惠[1] 

机构地区：[1]南开大学外国语学院,天津300071

出　　处：《暨南学报（哲学社会科学版）》2016年第11期23-32,共10页Jinan Journal(Philosophy and Social Sciences)

基　　金：天津市哲学社会科学规划项目<美国华人文学空间叙事研究>(批准号:TJWW15-008)

摘　　要：20世纪50—70年代的美国华文文学,是第一批以西方城市为书写背景或表现对象的华文文学,其中的西方城市往往以负面形象出现,并且充满华人移民对西方城市的消极体验,这与80年代以后中国的城市文学形成微妙的呼应,但是与后者不同的是,城市与乡村的二元叙事被消解,代之以美国与中国的二元对立,美国城市成为华文作家民族性与西方城市现代性斗争和博弈的场所,其结果是,华文作家以强大的民族性对西方城市现代性进行了挤压和驱逐,致使其文学书写中对西方现代性的集体去魅。Chinese American Sinophone Literature between the 1950 s and the 1970 s initiates the writing about western cities,but the images of those cities are often negative and they seem to bring traumatizing or demoralizing experiences to Chinese immigrants. This finds an echo in Chinese Urban Literature,however,different from the latter,American city writing foregrounds the dichotomy between America and China rather than that between the city and the country,hence,there occurs a tension between the writers' nationality and the modernity of American cities. As a matter of fact,there is a collective disillusionment of American modernity in Chinese American Sinophone Literature,which can be mainly accounted for by the writers' prevailing nationalism at that time.

关 键 词：20世纪50-70年代的美国华文文学 西方城市 现代性 民族性 

分 类 号：I712.09[文学—其他各国文学]