《海边》(By the Sea)是2021年诺贝尔文学奖获得者古尔纳的代表作,以萨利赫和拉蒂夫两位主要人物的人生经历为线索进行双重叙事,涉及大量空间转换,尤其围绕家园流动性.古尔纳借助对家宅和庇护所等物理空间的刻画,展现了古尔纳对"家"与"归家"的复杂情感,强调"家"对于流离失所的"边缘人"的美学价值;作家对桑给巴尔历史的社会空间的动态描绘反映了非洲的多样性与复杂性,打破了受众对非洲社会的刻板印象,反思了现代民族国家运动史;其对英国社会普遍存在的欧洲中心主义之刻画,旨在表明流散群体在移民国的心理空间体验.古尔纳通过绘制家园的流动性,折射出欧洲普遍存在对"他者"文化的排斥,也展现了异乡人的"处所意识"和"身份焦虑",揭示文化与地缘裂隙间的"夹心人"的境遇与命运.
Topophrenia and Home Space Mobility:Taking Gurnah's By the Sea as an Example
By the Sea is the masterpiece of Gurnah who is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021.It takes the life experiences of Saleh Omar and Latif Mahmud as clues to make a double narrative,involving a number of spatial transformations,especially the home space mobility.The depictions of physical spaces,such as homes and shelters,show Gurnah's complex feelings about"home"and"homecoming",emphasizing the aesthetic value of"home"for displaced"marginal people".Gurnah reflects the diversity and complexity of Africa through the dynamic description of Zanzibar history,so as to break the stereotype of Africa and reflect on the history of modern nation-state movement.The portrayal of Eurocentrism prevalent in British society aims to indicate the psychospatial experience of diaspora groups in immigrant countries.With the help of the dual narrative of the two characters,Gurnah not only reflects the widespread cultural exclusion of the"Other"in Europe,but also shows the"Topophrenia"and"Identity Anxiety"of strangers,revealing the fate and situation of the"marginal people"between culture and geography.
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