西化还是归真：《白牙》中战后第二代移民的文化困境

摘要

Zadie Smith’s first novel White Teeth truly describes various dilemmas of post-war immigrants to Great Britain. The paper aims to analyzes the text, devote a further discussion to the cultural dilemmas of the second-generation immigrants in London after WWII, and indicate the difference of the second-generation immigrants from their parents-they receive English education but get unequal treatment, so they are put into a dilemma of westernization or orientalization by the influence of both English culture and their native cultures.%当代英国女作家扎迪·史密斯的成名作《白牙》，真实反映了二战后英国移民所面临的各种困境。基于多元文化的视角，对小说进行文本解读，可以探讨英国战后第二代移民所处的文化困境：与第一代移民相比，战后第二代移民并没有因为接受英国文化教育而受到平等待遇，他们在英国文化和本族文化的夹击下生存，陷入全盘西化还是回归本真的两难境地。