哈尼夫·库雷西小说《亲密》中的“中年危机”及其文学伦理问题
关键词:哈尼夫·库雷西;《亲密》;中年危机;(反)成长叙事;文学伦理问题基金项目:教育部人文社会科学研究规划基金“哈尼夫·库雷西移民书写的(反)成长叙事及其文学伦理研究”(21YJA752010);暨南大学中央高校基本科研业务费项目《米克·巴尔跨媒介叙事与传播理论研究》(23IJKY06)。
Title:The“Midlife Crisis”and its Ethical Literary Questions in Hanif Kureishi' Novel Intimacy
Abstract: As the outstanding representative of the younger generation of British South-Asian novelists,Hanif Kureishi's literary contribution mainly lies in his social depiction of immigrant family lives. Kureishi’s novel Intimacy centers on the male protagonist Jay’s problems with “midlife crisis”,presenting his marriage crisis and monologue of“The Seven Year Itch” in narrative form, and social and ideological transformations of family and marriage during the Thatcherite Era. Targeting on the novel's narrative discourse of“midlife crisis”,this essay applies ethical literary criticism methodology,figures out four critical dimensions such as marriage, class,affection and identity, and explores the male protagonist Jay's anti-Bildung narrative and its ethical construction, while discusses the implied cultural identity narrative and its ethical dilemma in Kureishi's immigrant writing.
Key words: Hanif Kureishi; Intimacy; midlife crisis; (anti) Bildung narrative; ethical literary questions
Author: Wang Jin, Ph.D.,is professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the Faculty ofForeign Studies inJinan University (Guangzhou 510632, China). His research mainly focuses on European-American literature and literary theories. E-mail: twangjin2O18@sina.com
哈尼夫·库雷西(HanifKureishi)是晚近以来活跃在英国文坛上的巴基斯坦裔小说家,对新生代英国南亚裔群体的家庭生活和社会心理具有独特的洞察力和想象力,2008 年被英国《泰晤士报》誉为“1945年以来五十位最伟大的英国作家之一”。(剩余12207字)