摘要
古巴裔美国作家克里斯蒂娜·加西娅的华裔家族传奇《猎猴记》以非洲黑奴制与亚洲劳工制的历史联结为背景,以华工陈潘只身移民古巴为原型,再现了华工背井离乡来新世界谋生的移民史,以及其后代更复杂的空间位移所折射出的华人离散史。通过描写陈潘在不同场域的生活,加西娅将古巴殖民社会不平等的种族关系以及非裔与华裔群体的联合以空间表征的方式呈现出来,在批判(新)殖民权力的同时,呈现出历史性、社会性和空间性的三元统一。陈潘后代所做的跨越太平洋以及横亘美洲的空间位移则把空间想象与情感归属纳入了离散身份构建的语境,从而解构了母国和移民国之间的二元关系,表明离散者日益增强的流动性使离散身份面临更复杂的构建过程。
Set in the historical juncture of African slavery and Asian inden- tureship, Cuban American writer Cristina Garcia＇s Monkey Hunting （2003） is a Chinese family saga that depicts the history of Chinese immigration to the Caribbean and LatinAmerica. It describes a Chinese indentured worker＇s archetypal journey to Cuba and the more complicated spatial mobility of the younger generations of his family, which re- flects the Chinese diasporic history in a wider diasporic space. Through the indentured worker＇s struggles in different locales, Garcia spatially represents the unequal racial rela- tionships and the alliance of Chinse and African diasporas in the colonial Cuban society, thus showcasing the trialectics of historicity, sociality and spatiality. The transpacific and trans-American mobility of younger generations of the indentured worker＇s family relate spatial imagining and emotional belonging to the construction of diasporic identity. By deconstructing the binary of ＂homeland＂ and ＂hostland＂, the novel suggests that the fluid- ity of diasporic geography engenders a more complicated process of identity construction.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2017年第3期73-80,共8页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
浙江省教育厅科研项目"美洲亚裔文学研究"(Y20143122)
浙江省哲学社会科学项目"美洲华裔离散语境中的女性身体政治研究"(16NDJC067YB)的阶段性成果
