第三空间与身份再现:《柏油孩子》中后殖民主义身份建构

摘要

The African American woman Jadine's identity is constructed by Toni Morrison in the novel Tar Baby in the "Third Space" with the context of the post-colonial mixed and intertwined culture,in which the identity is constructed in the process of overlap,competition and negotiation of diverse nations,social interests and cultural values with the characteristics of temporariness and instability.In shaping the identity of Jadine,Morrison aims to point out that the pursuit of their true identity for minorities,who share multicultural sense of belonging and itinerant social identity,cannot trace back to the history of the nation,but should be based on the cross point of different cultures and capture the temporary identity of their own in the collision,hybridity and reconstruction of various relations.It is this unstable identity construction that has deconstructed the "either-or" foundation of the colonial culture.%托妮·莫里森的《柏油孩子》把对非裔美国女性吉丁的身份建构放置在后殖民语境下各种文化混杂、交织的"第三空间"中.在这一空间里,各种民族性、社会利益、文化价值相互交叠、竞争、协商的过程所浮现的身份具有暂时性和不稳定性的特点.本文认为,有着多元文化归属感和流动的社会身份认同的少数族裔对真实身份的追寻不能够通过向"本民族之过去"回溯,而是应该立足于不同文化的交叉点,在各种关系的碰撞、杂糅、重组中捕捉到自己的临时性身份,正是这种不稳定的身份建构解构了殖民文化"非此即彼"的根基.