《愤怒的葡萄》中的阈限性与共同体构建  

On the Liminality and the Construction of Community in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

作　　者：龚瑶 

机构地区：[1]四川大学外国语学院,四川 成都

出　　处：《现代语言学》2024年第4期469-474,共6页Modern Linguistics

摘　　要：阈限是约翰·斯坦贝克《愤怒的葡萄》的一个重要特点。小说中俄克拉荷马州农民失去土地、西进寻找希望之地的旅程是一场过渡仪式。与故土分离的农民沦为流民后体现出脆弱性的特点。流民在西进途中处于过渡仪式三阶段中的第二个阶段——阈限阶段。乔德一家以及牧师吉姆·凯西是流民中阈限人的代表人物。阈限以模糊、不确定为特征,使流民呈现出反叛性,追求交融状态,从而使其在过渡仪式进行过程中逐渐构建起具有神圣性的共同体。本文从阈限理论视角切入,探讨在过渡仪式中阈限促进20世纪30年代美国经济恐慌时期西进流民群体在分隔阶段呈现的脆弱性转化为反叛性的积极意义,进而分析阈限在重构人际关系、追寻群体身份方面所起的作用,以揭示阈限对流民群体生存的意义。Liminality features John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. The journey of Oklahoma farmers leaving their native land and heading west in search of their dreamland can be regarded as a rite of passage. The evicted farmers are reduced to the migrants characterized by fragility. After embarking on the westering journey, they are in the liminal phase, namely the second phase of the rite of passage, and becomes liminoidals. The Joads as well as the preacher Jim Casy are representatives of liminoidals. Liminality is featured by ambiguity and uncertainty, which thus makes the outcasts present rebellion and pursue communitas. Hence, the construction of a divine community in the rite of passage emerges. This thesis draws upon the liminal theory to analyze the significance of liminality in transforming the vulnerability of the westering group suffering from the dilemma of the other during the American economic panic in the 1930s into rebelliousness. Furthermore, it explores the role of liminality in the reconstruction of interpersonal relationships and the pursuit of group identity and reveals the significance of liminality in the survival of migrants.

关 键 词：《愤怒的葡萄》 阈限 共同体 

分 类 号：G63[文化科学—教育学]