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文艺理论研究 ›› 2016, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 193-201.

• 西方文论与批评 • 上一篇    下一篇

再议作家的族裔身份问题:本质主义与自由选择

虞建华   

  1. 上海外国语大学文学研究院
  • 出版日期:2016-11-25 发布日期:2017-09-30
  • 作者简介:虞建华,上海外国语大学文学研究院教授,博士生导师,主要学术兴趣为英美文学。
  • 基金资助:
    本论文系国家社科研究基金重点项目“美国历史‘非常’事件的小说再现与意识形态批判研究”[项目编号:15AWW005]的阶段性成果。

Rethinking Writers’ Ethnic Identity: Essentialism vs. Free Choice

Yu Jianhua   

  1. the Institute of Literary Studies, Shanghai International Studies University (Shanghai 200083, China)
  • Online:2016-11-25 Published:2017-09-30
  • About author:Yu Jianhua is a professor in the Institute of Literary Studies, Shanghai International Studies University (Shanghai 200083, China) and his main academic interest is English and American Literatures.

摘要: 本论文是对作家的族裔身份问题进行再认识和再讨论。本文首先梳理我国外国文学研究中对作家族裔身份的一般认定,将其归纳为血统论、塑形论、认同论和表现论四个方面,并逐一进行评述,解析其偏颇所在。在此基础上,本文讨论族裔作家文化身份“选择”的主观因素,聚焦常被忽视的身份的表演性和临时性,指出应以社会建构理论为指导思路,走出本质主义。本文结合目前我国的批评现状,强调在今天全球化大势下的多元的社会,我们更应该把作家的族裔身份看作一个动态、临时、杂糅的建构过程。

关键词: 族裔文学, 族裔身份, 身份, 身份建构

Abstract: The paper is a rethinking of writers' ethnic identity by, first of all, summarizing the basis on which ethnic writers are often categorized, namely by blood, nurturing, professed recognition or inclination, and analyzing the defects of such classification. Following this analysis, it discusses the subjective part of ethnic writers' identity selection, focusing mostly on the often neglected elements of identity — its performativity and its temporality; it argues that we need to abandon essentialism by embracing the theory of social constructionism. In today's multilateral and shifting world, the identity of ethnic writers should increasingly be viewed as a constructive process which is mobile, temporary and hybridized.

Key words: ethnic writing, ethnic identity, identity, identity construction