文学地理学视域下《船讯》的海洋空间书写与身份重构

Marine Spatial Writing and Identity Reconstruction in The Shipping News from the Perspective of Literary Geography

摘要: 安妮·普鲁的《船讯》以独特的纽芬兰海洋书写，深描了边地共同体命运，在美国当代区域文学中颇具代表性。小说以纽约失意记者奎尔迁居纽芬兰后的生活重建为叙事主线，通过海岸风暴、渔业劳动、油轮污染和“船讯”写作等地理物象与地理事象，建构出具有复合意义的纽芬兰海洋空间。文章以梅新林文学地理学“三原”理论为轴线，依次考察纽芬兰海洋边地的空间定位、海洋场景的文本形态及资本逻辑展开、奎尔在“船讯”写作中地方主体的生成过程。研究认为，《船讯》中的海洋空间并非单一自然背景，而是地方经验、现代危机与主体重构彼此交织的意义结构。普鲁借纽芬兰海洋边地呈现边地共同体的存续压力，也揭示现代个体在地方经验中重新获得表达能力与公共责任的可能。

Abstract: Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is representative of contemporary American regional writing through its distinctive representation of Newfoundland’s marine space and marginal community. The novel centers on the life reconstruction of Quoyle, a disillusioned New York journalist who relocates to Newfoundland, constructing a multi-layered Newfoundland maritime space through geographical objects and events such as coastal storms, fishing labor, oil tanker pollution, and “shipping news” writing. Drawing upon Mei Xinlin’s literary geography “Three Originals” theory as the analytical axis, this article examines the spatial positioning of Newfoundland’s maritime borderland, the textual forms of maritime scenes, the unfolding of capital logic, and the generative process of Quoyle’s local subjectivity through “shipping news” writing. The study argues that the maritime space in The Shipping News is not merely a singular natural backdrop, but a meaning structure interwoven with local experience, modern crisis, and subjective reconstruction. Through the Newfoundland maritime borderland, Proulx not only presents the survival pressures faced by borderland communities, but also reveals the possibility for modern individuals to regain expressive capacity and public responsibility through local.