当代文学评论
Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Publisher:Eastern Sunshine Publishing House Limited
- ISSN Print:3104-560X(P)
- ISSN Online:3104-5618(O)
- Subject Category:Literature & Arts
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“家”的失落与重构：《小岛》中的空间书写与归属困境
The Loss and Reconstruction of "Home": Spatial Writing and the Predicament of Belonging in Small Island
Published: 2026-11-12
Author: 巴彦卓 :杭州师范大学外国语学院 浙江杭州; BA Yanzhuo :School of International Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou;
Chinese Abstract: 安德烈娅·利维的小说《小岛》以1948年牙买加移民霍滕丝赴英经历为主线，呈现了殖民教育所建构的“帝国之家”空间承诺与战后伦敦种族空间现实之间的激烈碰撞，揭示了后殖民语境下移民群体的归属困境。小说中，“房子”不仅是物理栖居之所，更是权力关系、种族区隔与文化认同的具象化载体。本文借鉴列斐伏尔的空间生产理论与霍尔的文化身份理论，从空间书写角度切入，沿着“家的失落与重构”这一叙事弧，分析移民如何在空间排斥的夹缝中重构“家”的意义。本文认为，《小岛》的空间书写不仅是个体家园追寻的文学再现，更是利维解构帝国叙事、探索跨族群共同体可能性的关键策略。
Abstract: Andrea Levy's novel Small Island centers on the experience of Hortense, a Jamaican immigrant who travels to Britain in 1948, presenting a fierce collision between the spatial promise of an "imperial home" constructed by colonial education and the racialized spatial reality of postwar London. It reveals the predicament of belonging faced by immigrant communities in the postcolonial context. In the novel, the "house" is not merely a physical dwelling but also a concrete embodiment of power relations, racial segregation, and cultural identity. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space and Stuart Hall's theory of cultural identity, this paper approaches the novel from the perspective of spatial writing and, following the narrative arc of "the loss and reconstruction of home," analyzes how immigrants reconstruct the meaning of "home" within the interstices of spatial exclusion. This paper argues that the spatial writing in Small Island is not only a literary representation of the individual quest for home but also a key strategy through which Levy deconstructs imperial narratives and explores the possibility of a cross-ethnic community.
Chinese Keywords: 安德烈娅·利维；《小岛》；空间书写；家；跨族群共同体
Keywords: Andrea Levy; Small Island; spatial writing; home; cross-ethnic community