文化之物：安妮·普鲁《手风琴罪案》中的乐器书写
Cultural Things: Writing on the Musical Instrument in Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes

从安妮·普鲁《手风琴罪案》中乐器演奏的活动入手，探讨乐器在作者笔下聚合、生成的多重意义。首先，乐器是外来移民延续族裔文化的纽带，也是传统文化的承载之物；其次，乐器拥有情动力，对移民产生有利和有害的双重影响；最后，乐器作为叙事聚焦者，见证了移民对文化身份和母国文化的遗弃。在小说中，以一台绿色键式手风琴为中心叙事角色，串联了近百年的移民的故事。其中，手风琴具有满足人类日常娱乐和休闲的功能，夹带着母国文化、物人情感互动的丰富内涵，是美国主流文化和边缘移民文化进行角逐、协商和对话的媒介。
From immigrants’ activities of playing the musical instrument in Accordion Crimes, this paper will dig out the multiple meanings assembled and generated by the musical instrument in Proulx’s composition. Firstly, the musical instrument is a tie for the immigrants to prolong their ethnic culture and also a carrier of their cultural memory. Secondly, the musical instrument enjoys “affect” which generates in immigrants both positive effects and negative effect. Finally, as a focal point in narrative, the musical instrument sees immigrants’ abandonment of their mother culture and cultural identity. In novel, a green button diatonic accordion is the central narrative character, connecting the stories of immigrants in more than a hundred years. With a function to satisfy human entertainment in daily life, the accordion is abundant in cultural memory, the affective interaction between thing and man as well as multiple cultural identity. It is a field in which the marginal immigrants’ culture is competing, negotiating and communicating with American mainstream culture.