自我书写与身份建构——论《富兰克林自传》的主题

《富兰克林自传》通过不同的话语叙述对自我进行了书写,建构了三种不同的身份:从印刷工走向了公益人,最后以国父形象呈现在读者面前,由此富兰克林完成了从个人身份向民族身份的转变。富兰克林的身份在自我与他者的矛盾冲突中获得了理想的平衡,在个体与社会的交互作用中、在说话人与听众的潜在交流中得到了完美的展示。他的多重身份不仅反映了特定时代中自我的觉醒,代表着个人的成功,也注入了全新的启蒙思想,它还代表着一个民族的身份、一个国家的身份、一个时代的身份。

Self-description and Identity Construction in Franklin's Autobiography

With the discourse narrative in Autobiography,Franklin constructed three identities.With the identity construction,the persona of self changed from Printer to Patriarch,from individual identity to national identity.The autobiographical self was present completely in mutual influences between self and others,in conflicts between inner truth and exterior exaggeration,in interaction between individual and society.His multi-identities not only represent the self-fulfillment but also stand for the American traits.