进城农民工身份的焦虑与困惑--读孙惠芬《吉宽的马车》

摘要

Ji Kuan’ s Carriage depicted the anxiety and bewilderment of migrant workers in the face of the chan-ging society and the clash of rural and suburban culture. Starting from the identity anxiety of the protagonist, the problems as to“who we are”, the relationship between human and the city and how to find peace for the soul are tackled in the novel. It elaborates the three stages of the shifting relationship between the protagonist Shen Jikuan and the city:from an eagerness to enter the city, to equalizing the city to a monster and to eventually getting a ra-tional understanding of the city. With these 3 steps, the author ponders into the ways to find peace for the soul, analyzes the existence puzzlement, mental status and identity anxiety of the migrant workers, with a view to re-lieve the anxiety of migrant workers.%《吉宽的马车》描写了在时代变迁、城乡文明碰撞下进城农民工对“我们会是谁”、人与城的关系、灵魂何以安放等问题的焦虑与困惑。小说从“我是谁”的身份认同角度切入，通过阐述主人公申吉宽与城市的关系由渴望进入、将城市等同野兽到最终能理性认识城市三个阶段，以及作者对灵魂归属的思考，以此关注进城农民工在城市遭受的生存困惑、身份难以确定的困境，进而舒缓进城农民工的精神焦虑。