逢迎主流,抑或另辟蹊径?——论混血族裔伊顿姐妹的文学发声

批评界向来将混血族裔伊迪丝·伊顿和温妮弗蕾德·伊顿姐妹视作美国亚裔文学的先行者,却较少关注她们作为混血族裔本身的身份诉求。伊迪丝唐人街文学和温妮弗蕾德日本浪漫故事均渗透着混血族裔尊重差异、种族融通的吁求。伊顿姐妹积极介入主流文化活动和价值观塑造,细致研判读者群特征及其审美期待,借势女性主义、东方主义等社会思想,包装种族话语,表达混血族裔乃至所有少数族裔的感受和关切,开辟了混血族裔文学叙事的新领域。

Between Mainstream and a New Way Out:On the Mixed-race Literary Voicing of Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna

Literary critics see the mixed-race sisters Edith Eaton and Winnifred Eaton as the vanguard of Asian American literature while they lay little emphasis on their unique pursuit of mixed-race identity.Both Edith's Chinatown stories and Winnifred's Japanese romances are permeated with mixed-race appeal for respecting racial differences and coexistence.The Eaton sisters participate proactively in mainstream cultural activities and value modelling by precisely distinguishing the target readers whose aesthetic anticipation co-works with feminist and orientalist thoughts for the strategic packaging of ethnic discourses so as to express mixed-race or all-minority sensitivity and concerns,which brings the new area of mixed-race narrative into reality.