美华“草根文群”的唐人街书写

发布时间：2018-10-13 09:34

【摘要】：“草根文群”是美国华文文学中的一个作家群体,指长期生活在美国社会底层、以表现美国底层华人生活状况和思想感情为主要创作内容的移民作家。黄运基、刘荒田、老南、宗鹰、刘子毅等“草根文群”作家正是长期生活、工作在旧金山、纽约等城市的唐人街。与其他创作群体相比,“草根文群”的唐人街书写更为贴近社会现实,具有真实再现底层华人社会的独特价值。唐人街是美国底层华人的主要生活区域,书写唐人街正是在书写底层华人社会。诞生于晚清时期的美华文学作品《苦社会》开了唐人街书写的先例,是最早描写唐人街底层社会和华人生活的作品之一,小说通过对先侨时期的华商华工的描写再现了处于排华禁约时期的唐人街境况。“草根文群”继承了《苦社会》唐人街书写的传统,不同时期移民作家因自身所处时代唐人街境况不同而在创作中也呈现出一定的差异性:老移民作家如黄运基的创作展现了随国家政治局势不断变化的唐人街社会,表现了移民由落叶归根到落地生根的心态转变以及对待主流社会从抗争走向融合的历史进程;新移民作家们的唐人街书写则更关注处于稳定状态下唐人街的日常世俗生活,在各种生活场景之中展现了唐人街不同时期移民们的百态人生。从《苦社会》到“草根文群”,草根作家们始终以自身经验来进行唐人街书写,再现真实的唐人街。“草根文群”继承了《苦社会》中描写底层华人、建构华人移民史、揭示“美国梦”真相等文学传统,并随着时代的发展表现出不同的变化。但无论是老移民作家还是新移民作家,他们的唐人街书写都始终致力于重塑被主流社会遮蔽的华人移民史,表述自我、表现底层华人移民的真实生活,这也是“草根文群”唐人街书写的独特意义。
[Abstract]:"Grass-Roots" is a group of writers in American Chinese literature. It refers to immigrant writers who have lived at the bottom of American society for a long time and whose main content is to express the living conditions and thoughts and feelings of the Chinese at the bottom of the United States. Huang Yunji, Liu Huantian, Lao Nan, Zongying, Liu Ziyi and other "grassroots writers" lived in Chinatown in San Francisco, New York and other cities for a long time. Compared with other creative groups, the writing of the Chinatown is more close to the social reality and has the unique value of reproducing the bottom Chinese society. Chinatown is the main living area of the Chinese at the bottom of the United States, and the writing of Chinatown is just writing about the Chinese society at the bottom. "bitter Society", which was born in the late Qing Dynasty, set a precedent for the writing of Chinatown. It was one of the earliest works describing the bottom society of Chinatown and the life of Chinese people. The novel reproduces the situation of Chinatown in the period of exclusion of Chinese by depicting Chinese businessmen and Chinese workers during the period of emigration. "Grass-Roots" inherits the tradition of "bitter Society" written in Chinatown. Because of the different circumstances of Chinatown in different periods, immigrant writers also show some differences in their creations: the creation of old immigrant writers, such as Huang Yunji, shows the Chinatown society, which is constantly changing with the political situation of the country. It shows the change of the mentality of immigrants from falling leaves to taking root and the historical process of dealing with the mainstream society from struggle to integration, while the writing of Chinatown by new immigrant writers pays more attention to the daily secular life of Chinatown in a stable state. In all kinds of life scenes, it shows the life of immigrants in Chinatown in different periods. From "bitter Society" to "grassroots Literature Group", grassroots writers always use their own experience to write Chinatown and reproduce the real Chinatown. Caogen Wenqun inherits the literary tradition of describing the Chinese at the bottom, constructing the history of Chinese immigrants, revealing the truth of the American Dream, and showing different changes with the development of the times. But whether they are old immigrant writers or new immigrant writers, their Chinatown writing has always been devoted to reshaping the history of Chinese immigrants who have been obscured by the mainstream society, expressing themselves, and showing the real life of the Chinese immigrants at the bottom. This is also the unique meaning of writing in Chinatown.
【学位授予单位】：暨南大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2016
【分类号】：I712.074

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