中国形象误读的跨文化语境及机制

2021-08-23 08:55:17张芳
安徽理工大学学报·社会科学版 2021年3期

摘 要:作为融合了中国传统文化与美国当代主流价值观的特殊文学作品,《女勇士》《灶神之妻》从博大精深的中华文化中汲取养分,以美国人的视角加以创作,激发了西方读者的想象力,引发了共鸣,获得了巨大成功。而在创作过程中,因时空之囿、身份诉求以及跨文化传播等因素,华裔作家经常有意无意夸大中国文化中的消极部分或改编经典的故事人物形象,以迎合西方人的欣赏品味,造成了中国形象的误读。这种误读折射了华裔美国作家回应主流文化的叙事和生存策略以及中国形象跨文化传播的现实境遇。

关键词:美国华裔文学;形象误读;跨文化语境;生成机制

中图分类号:I106  文献标识码:A  文章编号:

1672-1101(2021)03-0069-05

收稿日期:2021-03-03

基金项目:安徽省人文社会科学重点研究项目:跨文化传播视阈下华裔美国文学中中国形象呈现(SK2018A0088);安徽省教育教学改革研究项目:理工科高校大学英语跨文化能力培养模式研究(2020jyxm0471);2019年大学生创新训练项目:大学公共英语跨文化教学中的问题与对策(201910361107)

作者简介:张芳(1985-),女,安徽淮南人,讲师,硕士,研究方向:英美文化。

Cross Cultural Context and Mechanism of Misreading of Chinese Image

——a case study of Chinese American works The Woman Warrior and The Kitchen God's Wife

ZHANG Fang

(School of Foreign Languages, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, Anhui  232001, China)

Abstract: As special literary works integrating Chinese traditional cultures and American contemporary mainstream values, "The Woman Warrior" and "The Kitchen God's wife" drew nutrients from the extensive and profound Chinese culture and were created from the American perspective, which stimulated the imagination of Western readers, aroused resonance and achieved great success. However, in the process of creation, due to the constraints of time and space, identity demands and cross-cultural communication and other factors, the two writers often intentionally or unintentionally exaggerated the negative part of Chinese culture or adapted the classic characters to cater to the taste of Westerners, resulting in the misreading of Chinese images. This misreading reflected the narrative and survival strategies of Chinese American writers in response to the mainstream culture, as well as the reality of cross-cultural communication of Chinese image.

Key words:Chinese American literature; image misreading; cross cultural context; generative mechanism

湯婷婷、谭恩美将个人的生存记忆与时代重影,让个体诉说化为对国家和民族的慨叹,最终赢得对人性思考的广度与深度,彰显了其小说独特的艺术魅力。然而对于在种族歧视盛行的社会环境中长大、为自己的双重身份感到迷茫困惑的华裔作家而言,他们的思想体系是以美国主流价值观念为基调的,因而摆脱原祖居国文化和少数族裔身份的束缚、融入西方主流文化的愿望尤为强烈。……

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