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解读《卢布林的魔术师》里雅夏的身份危机

作　者: 杨丹
导　师: 黄家修
学　校: 广东外语外贸大学
专　业: 英语语言文学
关键词: 《卢布林的魔术师》流散身份危机反同化
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类　型: 硕士论文
年　份: 2008年
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近年来,流散文学得到广泛关注,而身份问题又是流散文学中的热门问题之一。生活在异质文化中的流散者遇到了怎样的身份问题呢?1960年出版的《卢布林的魔术师》(英语本)被誉美籍犹太作家辛格的代表作。评论家曾试图用各种方法,诸如原型批评,存在主义,女性主义等,来解读主人公雅夏。本文借助身份理论来探讨雅夏身份危机和辛格最终把雅夏塑造成虔诚的犹太人的目的和局限性。不同于生活在卢布林的虔诚的哈西德派犹太人,雅夏是一个犹太魔术师。他闯荡江湖,靠卖艺为生。流浪的生涯让他在自身文化身份构建中享有前所未有的自由,但犹太文化和世俗文化抵制的状态却让雅夏的文化身份处于一种分裂,不稳定,流动,不断形成的状态。雅夏试图在自己的犹太文化身份和异教徒身份之间保持一种紧张的平衡,但是分裂的身份让他几近崩溃。矛盾之中,他决定割断自己与犹太文化的联系,彻底的融入到世俗文化之中。然而,潜意识里犹太传统文化的影响却又阻止他改宗,同化。在小说的结尾,雅夏回到卢布林,成为一名虔诚的犹太人。通过叙述雅夏最终转变成虔诚的犹太人,辛格反同化的立场是显而易见的。但是,由于辛格自身没有逃脱传统身份构建思路的影响,他的最终解决身份危机的办法对生活在现代美国的犹太人来说是缺乏可行性的。他们不可能像雅夏一样通过割断同外界的联系来建立稳定,单一的犹太文化身份。

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  6-7
ABSTRACT  7-8
摘要  8-11
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION  11-18
  1.1 Literature Review  11-15
  1.2 Thesis Statement  15
  1.3 Structure  15-18
CHAPTER TWO THEORIES OF IDENTITY AND THE ISSUE OF JEWISH IDENTITY  18-25
  2.1 A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Identity  18-21
    2.1.1 Essentialism  18-19
    2.1.2 Anti-essentialsim  19-21
  2.2 The Issue of Jewish Identity  21-25
    2.2.1 The Historical and Social Context of Jewish Identity Formation  22-23
    2.2.2 Parameters in Defining Jewish Ethnicity  23-25
CHAPTER THREE YASHA'S IDENTITY CRISIS  25-37
  3.1 Yasha as a Half Gentile  25-29
    3.1.1 Yasha's Doubt about the Jewish God and His Deviation From Orthodox Jewish Way of Life  26-27
    3.1.2 Yasha's Pursuit of Worldly Success and Pleasure  27-28
    3.1.3 Yasha's Craze about Secular Knowledge  28-29
  3.2 Yahsa as a Half Jew  29-34
    3.2.1 Yasha's Attachment to Esther  30
    3.2.2 Yasha's Taking Refuge in a Synagogue  30-32
    3.2.3 Yasha's Secret Belief in God  32
    3.2.4 Yasha's Code of Conduct  32-34
  3.3 Causes of Yasha's Identity Crisis  34-37
    3.3.1 The Contrast between the Excitement in Warsaw and the Stifling Environment in Lublin  34-35
    3.3.2 Yasha's Desire to Pursue his Individuality  35-37
CHAPTER FOUR YASHA'S SOLUTIONS TO HIS PROBLEM OF IDENTITY CRISIS  37-44
  4.1 Effects of Yasha's Two Conflicting Identities  37-40
    4.1.1 Yasha as a Spiritual Orphan  37-39
    4.1.2 Yasha's Chaotic State of Mind  39-40
  4.2 Yasha's Solutions to the Problem of Identity Crisis  40-44
    4.2.1 Solution One—Cutting off his Connection with Jewish Culture  40-43
    4.2.2 Solution Two—Constructing his Identity as a Pious Jew  43-44
CHAPTER FIVE SINGER'S INTENTION OF PORTRAYING YASHA AS A PIOUS JEW  44-57
  5.1 Jewish Assimilation in America  44-47
  5.2 Singer's Attitude toward Jewish Assimilation  47-49
  5.3 Singer's Intention of Portraying Yasha as a Pious Jew  49-52
  5.4 Singer's Limitation in Portraying Yasha as a Pious Jew  52-57
CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION  57-61
WORKS CITED  61-63

解读《卢布林的魔术师》里雅夏的身份危机

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