全球语境下西游文本故事的变形

Abstract

西游故事因其开放的文本形式和普世的叙事内核，成为全球改编次数最多的文学作品，其涉及到的载体不止传统文学，还包括大众文化范畴下的影视剧、流媒体甚至游戏。西游文本的改写也不是单纯的西方奇幻故事内核下的东方传奇，更是在全球化语境下的一种杂糅：西游的文本故事被不同文化进行改写和传播，这不仅是文化主体突出自我身份的想象地域，同时，西游的文本故事变形在全球语境下中塑造着共同体的边界。关于东方异域文化的“想象的地理”并非是稳定和一成不变的，而是犹如一个“漂浮的能指”，一个动态的地理符指，并随着现代文明的发展而改变着它的疆域。

Journey to the West, with its open textual form and universal narrative core, has become the most widely adapted literary work worldwide. Its reach extends beyond traditional literature to encompass popular culture through film, television, streaming media, and even games. This rewriting of the text of Journey to the West is not simply an Eastern legend within a Western fantasy core, but rather a hybrid within the context of globalization: The text of Journey to the West, adapted and disseminated across diverse cultures, not only serves as an imagined terrain for cultural subjects to highlight their own identities, but also shapes the boundaries of communities within a global context. The "imagined geography" of Eastern exotic cultures is not stable and unchanging, but rather a "floating signifier," a dynamic geographical symbol whose boundaries shift with the development of modern civilization.