Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.46585/absa.2022.15.2436
Petra Kohlová
This article explores acculturation strategies and their expressions in the novel Native Speaker (1995) by Chang-rae Lee, a Korean-American author. This novel concerns the clash of immigrant identities with the notion of a genuinely American identity as well as the adaptation into the majority society by first- and second-generation immigrants. While this is not Lee’s first novel concerned with intricate identity issues, Native Speaker is considered his most important work, as it introduced Korean-American fiction to the U.S. mainstream public. Although the novel is well known to critics, it has not been analysed using the particular view of acculturation strategies featured here which deal with psychological and intercultural relations of individuals in their private and public lives. The notion of acculturation used here is based on the well-known model proposed by psychologist John W. Berry, a paradigm consisting of four strategies: assimilation, integration, separation, and marginalization. This view argues that, despite coming from similar ethnic backgrounds, the plethora of characters each engage with the U.S. mainstream differently (in their public and private lives), thus their acculturation categories may also change through time. This is exemplified through changes in the protagonist Henry Park.
本文探讨了美籍韩裔作家李昌来的小说《母语者》(1995)中的文化适应策略及其表达。这部小说关注的是移民身份与真正美国身份的冲突，以及第一代和第二代移民对主流社会的适应。虽然这不是李的第一部涉及复杂身份问题的小说，但《母语者》被认为是他最重要的作品，因为它将韩裔美国人的小说介绍给了美国主流大众。尽管批评家们对这部小说很熟悉，但并没有使用文化适应策略的特殊观点来分析它，这种观点处理了个人在私人和公共生活中的心理和跨文化关系。这里使用的文化适应概念是基于心理学家John W. Berry提出的著名模型，该模型由四种策略组成:同化、整合、分离和边缘化。这一观点认为，尽管来自相似的种族背景，但众多角色与美国主流的接触方式不同(在公共和私人生活中)，因此他们的文化适应类别也可能随着时间的推移而改变。这一点可以从主人公亨利·帕克的变化中得到体现。
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