“For being a foreigner Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy -- a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been an ordinary life, only to discover that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding. Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity of from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect.”
前一陣子讀’The Namesake’ by Jhumpa Lahiri ,她以懷孕的印度媽媽的角度寫這種移民心態,寫得很傳神:
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• 這是我們自己的選擇,那就必須也是隻能接受它帶給我們的一切,有幸福也有失落 -玉淵潭八一湖- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/04/2016 postreply 12:03:52
• 是啊。原住民的失落就更沉重了,本來是主人卻變成了外人。 -lepton- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/04/2016 postreply 13:50:25