摘要
在加拿大华裔作家李群英的小说《残月楼》中,三起乱伦事件的发生都植根于黄家这个华裔家庭的移民先辈所做出的伦理选择和北美华人社区的特殊伦理环境,以及由此引发的伦理身份混乱。早期华人移民的伦理选择是宗法制血缘伦理遭遇北美语境时挤压和变形的产物,体现了早期华人移民在北美社会的精神迷失,以及血缘伦理在异域的异化;而乱伦的发生又与唐人街社区被主流社会排斥和隔离的历史境遇密切相关。这些悲剧的发生充分展现北美华人在异域伦理秩序调整和重构中所付出的巨大代价,而其作者也以此批判中国传统家庭伦理中的父系传承和加拿大历史上对华人移民的不公正待遇,实现作品的伦理价值。
In Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café, the three incestual incidents took place because of the ethical choices made by the early generations of immigrants in the Huang family, and the following confusion of ethical identities, both of which were closely associated with the unique ethical environment in the North American Chinese community. The ethical choices made by the early Chinese immigrants seem to be a result from suppression and distortion when the ethics of patriarchal kinship encountered the North American context. It embodies the spiritual disorientation of the early Chinese immigrants in North America and a kind of alienation of kinship ethics in a foreign land. The occurrence of the incestual incidents is closely related to the long history of the Chinatown community’s exclusion and segregation from the mainstream society. These tragedies fully indicate the hefty price the North American Chinese paid while readjusting and reconstructing their ethical order in a foreign land. The paper intends to argue that the author manifested the ethical value of his novel by critiquing the patriarchal lineage in traditional Chinese ethics and the unfair treatment of the Chinese immigrants in Canadian history as well.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2018年第6期51-63,共13页
Foreign Literature Studies
基金
国家社科基金项目"多元文化背景下的女性流散文学研究"(14FWW014)~~
关键词
李群英
《残月楼》
宗法制血缘伦理
伦理选择
伦理身份
Sky Lee
Disappearing Moon Cafe
patriarchal kinship ethics
ethical choice
ethical identity
