文档介绍：从生态批评的角度重读谭恩美的三部作品
王立礼
内容提要: 处在环境危机时代,研究文学与自然环境的关系生态批评应该得到更广泛的运用。本论文拟从生态批评的角度重读谭恩美的三部较为近期的作品:《百种秘密感官》,(The Hundred Secret Senses,1995),《正骨师的女儿》(The Bonesetter’s Daughter, 2001)和《拯救溺水鱼》(Saving Fish From Drowning, 2005)。论文的讨论将围绕以下问题展开:在这些作品中自然是如何被呈现的?自然背景在小说的情节中起了什么作用?这些作品所表述的价值观与生态智慧是否一致?和种族、阶级、性别等一样,“地方”是否也应该成为一项新的批评类别?重读这三部作品论文作者发现它们在选择场景方面显示了作者对有鲜明原生态特点的自然环境的浓厚兴趣。在小说中作者用生态意识和生态智慧融合了自然的呈现和价值观的探讨。
关键词:生态批评自然背景地方生态智慧生态意识
Abstract: In an age of environmental crisis, ecocriticism which studies the relationship between literature and the physical environment should be more widely applied than it is now. This paper intends to reread the recent three novels by Amy Tan from the perspective of ecocriticism-- The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001) and Saving Fish From Drowning (2005). The discussion will try to address these questions which an ecocritic would ask: How is nature represented in Tan’s three works? What role does the physical setting play in the plots of her novels? Are the values expressed in these works consistent with ecological wisdom? In addition to race, class and genre, should “place” e a new critical category? Rereading the three works by Amy Tan, the author of the paper finds the choice of place in the three recent novels shows the novelist’s strong interest in physical settings characterized by natural primitivism. In these novels A