Transatlantic connections in John McGahern’s The Leavetaking
Transatlantic connections in John McGahern’s The Leavetaking
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约翰·麦克加恩的《告别》中的跨大西洋联系
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10.1080/09670882.2022.2037269
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发表时间：
2022
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0.7
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Brian Fox
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John McGahern通常被认为是一位当地或“自我封闭的世界”的艺术家，正如Declan Kidney所说的那样。他的作品探索了与McGahern年轻时在爱尔兰西北部的地方密切相关的人物的生活和爱情。因此，他的作品的主题往往与其他“省级”爱尔兰现实主义者的主题一致，在卡瓦纳的意义上：宗教，流亡和地方身份或自我。然而，本文的重点是麦加亨在不同的民族文化条件下将自我与非自我进行对比的实例。具体来说，在《告别》以及短篇小说《门口》和《银行假日》中，他引入了美国人物（三个故事中都是女性），这似乎是为了给这些故事中漂泊不定的男主人公提供爱情的火花，也是为了通过与美国的比较和美国人对爱尔兰的看法来评论爱尔兰。在这样做的过程中，麦加亨运用了一种跨大西洋的循环和运动词汇，反映了他封闭的地方对非地方的开放，自我对非自我的开放。
John McGahern is most often regarded as an artist of the local or the “self-enclosed world,” as Declan Kiberd puts it. His works explore the lives and loves of characters in settings that correspond closely with the localities of McGahern’s youth in the north-west of Ireland. Accordingly, the themes of his work are often aligned with those of other “provincial” Irish realists, in Kavanagh’s sense of the word: religion, exile, and local identities or selves. This paper, however, focuses on instances where McGahern contrasts the self with the non-self in distinct national-cultural terms. Specifically, inThe Leavetaking, as well as the short stories “Doorways” and “Bank Holiday,” he introduces American characters (women in all three cases) as much, it would seem, to provide the spark of a love-interest for those stories’ drifting male protagonists as to provide a commentary on Ireland by way of comparison with America and American perceptions of Ireland. In doing so, McGahern deploys a transatlantic vocabulary of circulation and movement that reflects the openness of his enclosed locality to the non-local, the self to the non-self.