双重文化下的困厄灵魂 _ 《女勇士》和《蝴蝶君》之对比研究.pdfVIP

摘 要 作为中美文化撞击与融合的产物，华裔美国文学在其一百多年的发展历程中 逐渐形成了自身的特色。华裔作家们的特殊地位与经历赋予了他们双重身份，也 给他们的作品提供了一个独特的视角，使他们得以用这种视角讲述他们曾经历过 和正在经历的事。这种双重身份使他们的生存状态带有极大的不确定性，同时也 使他们获得极为广阔的可能性。这种矛盾的处境在 《女勇士》和 《蝴蝶君》两部 作品中得到了很好的体现和探索。 本论文将从性别转化和故国想象两方面分析这两部作品，从中揭示出这样一 个主题：华裔作家们希冀通过营建一个叫做 “华裔美国”的特殊政治，经济，文 化空间，以抗衡异国生存中的无奈与挣扎，伤痛与迷惘，并通过涅磐般的蜕变与 升华打造全新的自我，借此“新我”成为消融中西异质文化之冰山的先行者。 关键词：身份；夹缝地位；性别转化；故国想象 ii Abstract In the more than one hundred years of its history Chinese American literature has developed its own characteristics. Chinese American writers’ unique position and experience endow them with a double identity and a particular vision when they try to explain what they have experienced or are experiencing. This double identity exposes them to both great uncertainties and numerous possibilities. Their in-between status is well displayed in two works by Maxine Hong Kingston and David Henry Hwang, namely, The Woman Warrior and M. Butterfly. This thesis will explore two aspects of the two works, each showing one side of the theme, that is: through the agency of literature, Chinese-American writers strive to forge a new ethnic identity, to define a unique sensibility, to delineate a new social and political space called Chinese America, and from hence, to enhance the physical and psychological well-being of Chinese-Americans. Having experienced confusion about identity, pressure of cultural conflicts and loss of values, Chinese-American writers have gone through a process of reorientation and have come to a reawakening of self-recognition. Transformed from self-denial to self-acceptance and then to self-transcendence, from conflicts and struggle to reconciliation and understanding, from being torn between two worlds to combining the strengths and resources of East and West, they act as a herald in thawing the ice of prejudice and encouraging mutua