当代英国小说中亚裔英国家庭意象的改变

亚裔英国移民在异质文化中生存的经历导致他们在追求家庭氛围的同时也排斥传统家庭观念对其身份构建的阻碍。文章通过对21世纪初期出版的英国移民小说和之前的同类作品的比较发现,亚裔英国移民在当代英国社会中的生存特点引发他们对家庭概念的重新探讨和商榷,并且引起英国移民小说中亚洲家庭意象的改变。亚裔英国家庭的新概念和新意象能够更加准确地反映出当代多种族、跨文化、后现代和后殖民的英国社会中隐性的社会结构变化。

The Transformed Image of the Asian-British Family in Contemporary English Novels

The Asian-British immigrants who live in the alien culture desire the familiar happiness,but at the same time they also want to avoid the barricade of the traditional family concepts.A comparative study of the British immigrant novels published in the 21st century and those written previously will reveal that the experiences of the Asian-British immigrants in the English society motivate them to redefine the concept of family and the redefinition also cause the transformation of the Asian-British family image in the novels.The new concept and new image of the Asian-British family can accurately reflect the changing social structures of the multicultural,postmodern and postcolonial Britain.