【作者】 李佳；

【导师】 杨经建；

【作者基本信息】 湖南师范大学 ， 中国现当代文学， 2010， 硕士

【摘要】 严歌苓是当代北美“新移民文学”的代表性作家,异质文化的冲击与生活经历的改变使严歌苓看待自我和审视世界的方式不断发生变化,其创作历程从本质上来看是一个文化身份认同和建构的过程,期间伴随的正是作者交错盘结的重重焦虑以及摆脱焦虑的渴望。这种创作的焦虑最先体现在“在异质文化中游走的边缘人”形象上。对于刚踏入异域的严歌苓来说,生活的压力、生命的尊严和中西文化的冲突使作家处于多重的边缘与放逐状态,作家在这种放逐和失语之痛中努力寻找自己身份和生命的归宿。严歌苓进行文化身份建构的尝试最先体现于对“在东西夹缝中生存的追寻者”的形象塑造中。这一时期严歌苓在经历了留美初期失“我”的状态后,开始了有意识地寻“我”,并试图在性别、国别、文化的边界之间寻找更深的经验感受和更广的叙述领域,题材上则相应表现为移民生活与回望大陆的重叠交错。而“在中华文化沃土中汲养的守望者”则是严歌苓最终摆脱文化身份焦虑的形象化诉求。严歌苓在边缘性的处境、多元文化的冲击下,终于完成了从出国后的“失去自我”、“寻找自我”再到“这就是我”的漫长旅程,并通过创作的过程完成了对自我身份的建构,最终走向本土题材的不断回归和追寻。总之,严歌苓创作中不同时期文化身份的变迁,显示出了新移民作家的创作在华文文学中的异质变奏和同根相承的特质。更多还原

【Abstract】 Yan Geling is a representative writer of the contemporary New Immigration Literature in North American. Her ways of viewing herself and the world have been shocked and changed greatly by the heterogeneous culture and her life experience. In nature, her writing is a process of cultural identity and construction, which is accompanied with the struggle between the complicated anxiety and eagerness to get rid of the anxiety in the author.The anxiety first appeared in her writing as a marginal person walking in the heterogeneous culture. Yan Geling,who has just entered another country then, was pushed between margins by the stressful life, dignity-seeking efforts as well as cultural shocks and was at a status of exile. It was in such a state that she struggled to find her own identity and destiny.Shaping the image who survived between eastern and western cultures was Yan’s first trial to construct the cultural identity. At the beginning of the period she stayed America, she experienced the loss of the ego firstly, then consciously began to look for the ego and tried to find some profound experiences and broader writing fields between sexes, nations and cultures, and overlapped in the subjects the immigrant life with the retrospect in China. A watcher in the fertile field of Chinese culture is an image with which Yan Geling claims she has got rid of her anxiety of cultural identity. Living at margins under multicultural shocks, Yan finally finished her journey from the loss of the ego, then looking for the ego, to identifying the ego. After constructing her identity through writing, at length she came back to look for native materials.All in all, that Yan Geling’s cultural identity changed in different periods demonstrates that though works of new immigrant writers keep varying in Chinese literature, they never leave far away from the root.更多还原