摘要
随着犹太文化在新一代美国犹太作家笔下复兴,以色列成为当代犹太美国文学的书写热点。作为引发母性联想的犹太人家园,作为父权主义与女性主义的冲突前沿,作为在与四邻纷争中艰难求存的主权国家,以色列尤其为美国犹太女作家们的文学想像提供了丰富的素材。由于她们的以色列书写往往以女主人公离开美国前往以色列寻求自我身份认同为叙事模型,是较为典型的成长小说,本文以此为视角,结合女性身份构建、女性本真生存、姐妹情谊等女性文学要素,探索《慈爱》、《来自一个封锁的房间》、《七次福佑》三部作品的女性人物在以色列完成主体性构建的成长历程,讨论其在主题探索与叙事审美维度呈现出的特性与共性,并分析以色列在美国犹太女性身份建构中所起的重要作用。
In recent three decades, there has been an emergent critical awareness of an American Jewish literary revival, in which the desire to assimilate gives way to a renewed interest in Jewish religion, history and culture in contemporary writ- ers＇ works. Literature on Israel, the foremost preoccupation of American Jewish discourse has accordingly flourished. For women writers in particular, Israel＇ s connotation with motherhood and mothering, with homecoming and regeneration offers tremendous possibilities of literary imagination. This paper aims to explore three works of such imagination, namely Loving- kindness by Anne Roiphe, From a Sealed Room by Rachel Kadish and Seven Blessings by Ruehaman King. Studying them through the lens of Bildungsroman novel, this paper tries to understand what role Israel plays in American Jewish young women＇ s pursuit of self-identity, and how this pursuit embodies the paradoxical relationship between mother and daughter, feminism and orthodoxy, Jewish and American.
出处
《外国语文》
北大核心
2014年第1期14-20,共7页
Foreign Languages and Literature
基金
国家社科基金青年项目(13CWW032)"美国犹太女作家流散写作研究"阶段性成果
关键词
美国犹太文学
当代女作家
以色列
成长小说
American Jewish literature
contemporary female writers
Israel
bildungsroman novel
作者简介
敬南菲,女,杭州电子科技大学外国语学院副教授,博士,主要从事美国犹太文学研究.
