中文题名: | 不安的杂糅——《抵抗者》与《克拉拉与太阳》中的后族裔书写 |
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论文语种: | eng |
学科代码: | 050201 |
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学生类型: | 硕士 |
学位: | 文学硕士 |
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学位年度: | 2023 |
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研究方向: | 英美文学 |
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提交日期: | 2023-06-05 |
答辩日期: | 2023-05-30 |
外文题名: | Uneasy Hybridity: Postethnic Writing in The Resisters and Klara and the Sun |
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外文关键词: | Post-ethnic writing ; The Resisters ; Klara and the Sun ; Science fiction |
中文摘要: |
《抵抗者》(2020)与《克拉拉与太阳》(2021)是两部分别由亚裔作家任碧莲(1955-)和石黑一雄(1954-)创作的当代反乌托邦科幻小说。两位作者的作品是亚裔英语文学的典范,曾经或时常反映边缘少数族裔的生存困境。基于前人研究,本论文从两部作品中宏观叙事构建、内容主题两个层面的直接体现或间接指涉,探讨任碧莲和石黑一雄的后族裔关切。本文认为,一种由于杂糅状态所带来的不安的困境渗透在作品的构建框架和主题内容中,而这一状态与作者的族裔背景息息相关。同时,本文认为两位作者超越了既往对族裔写作的期待,表达了他们对性别和人类共同未来等更普遍问题的关注。本文从三个层面考查两部文本中的后族裔书写。首先,本文讨论了小说中的叙事相似性,聚焦叙述框架以及叙述者的身份立场的共同之处:即,两位作者将故事背景设为永远无法“统一”的美利坚合众国具有讽刺意味、两个社会中都划分了三个等级、两位叙述者都被设为来自第三等级的后人类赛博格。本文论证这两部小说的构造相似性并非巧合,而是都运用了双层叙事技巧:表层是后人类主义科幻小说的经典设定,而内部暗含了 “新世界”中“局外人”的生存困境。第二,本文考察了两文本中由作者族裔背景相似性所带来的共同主题。两文本中中协调自身内部冲突所导致的不安,及通过爱情联结来消解困境的不可能性,都暗指了被边缘化的非白人移民仍在经历的差别化现实。第三,本文探讨了两位作者共同关注的主题,这些主题源于并超越族裔视阈的主题,展现了后族裔书写对不同社会中在性别、种族、民族和阶级交叉点上普遍存在的结构性他者的关怀。通过分析文本结局,本文指出任碧莲和石黑一雄对边缘化群体预构了不同的生存状态,即构建开放社区或无依地离散。本文结论指出,石黑一雄和任碧莲巧妙立足并超越既往族裔写作所面临的期待,通过科幻小说这一体裁灵活表达了他们根植和超越族裔背景的关注,进而扩容并丰富了亚裔、科幻小说原有的写作框架及内涵。 |
外文摘要: |
The Resisters (2020) and Klara and the Sun (2021) are two contemporary dystopian science fiction by two of the public-acclaimed and scholarly-honored authors of Asian descent, Gish Jen (1955-) and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-), both of whose work has represented the quintessence of Asian literature in English and has once or often reflected the lives of the marginalized minorities. Based on the previous study, the thesis explores Jen and Ishiguro's post-ethnic concerns which are represented or implicated the narrative and thematic layers of constructions. It argues that an uneasy predicament due to a state of hybridity permeating the frames and themes has taken root from their ethnic background. And it identifies their "going beyond the expectations" of ethnic writing as expressing their concerns on more universal issues such as gender and the shared future of mankind.This thesis examines post-ethnic writing on three levels. First, it addresses to the narrative similarities in the novels, concentrating on the common frames of the novels as well as the position and identity of the narrators. Specifically, both Jen and Ishiguro deliberately build the stories on the United States, which is ironically incapable of being "united" permanently; and both posits the narrators as post-humanist narrators from the third world, as there are three hierarchical divisions in both two societies constructed. Thus the thesis argues that the outer-layer similarities of the novels are none-coincident, rather implicating a narrative technique that is twofold: settings that are characteristic of post-humanist sci-fi and that reflects the living dilemma of misplaced outsiders in the "new world". Second, the shared themes of the texts also make visible the similar concerns brought out by the authors' ethnic background. The uneasiness of harmonizing conflicting parts within oneself and the impossibility of undoing the predicament through romantic or marital union both gesture towards the insinuation of the differentiated reality, which the marginalized non-white immigrants are still undergoing. Third, the thesis scrutinizes the themes that illustrate the authors' concerns which are in continuity with the former and go beyond them by focusing on the structural others that are universal among different societies at the intersection of gender, race, ethnic, and class. It analyzes the endings of the novels, arguing that Jen and Ishiguro envision different futures for the marginalized groups, an open community, and a rootless diaspora respectively.Finally, the thesis comes to a conclusion that both texts have tactfully worked through and gone beyond the expectations of which conventional ethnic writing confront, and have expanded and enriched the framework and contents of both English ethnic literature as well as science fiction in their flexible expressions through the genre and their concerns both rooted in their ethnic background and transcend it.
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参考文献总数: | 79 |
作者简介: | 罗艳梅,贵州贵阳人,研究方向为美国华裔科幻小说、后人类主义文学理论、女性主义文学理论。 |
馆藏号: | 硕050201/23004 |
开放日期: | 2024-06-05 |