美国犹太作家善于从表现空间规范的性别、族裔、阶级、伦理等审视自身存在或民族的空间生存状况，他们将自身的空间体验和犹太民族的空间变迁以小说叙事的形式参与到小说主人公空间身份的建构之中，揭示了犹太主人公在异族空间条件下从个体走向主体之成长的复杂与艰辛。宁云中著的《空间下的主体生成(20世纪美国犹太成长小说研究)(英文版)》主要借用梅洛-庞蒂的身体空间理论、列裴伏尔“空间三一”理论以及福柯的空间权力理论探讨美国犹太成长小说中犹太主人公在美国社会空间关系中从个体走向主体的空间生成过程和生成机制。本书分四大部分，美国犹太成长小说概述、成长的空间性与犹太民族的空间经验、美国犹太成长小说中主体成长的空间逻辑以及美国犹太成长小说中主体生成的空间模式。

宁云中著的《空间下的主体生成(20世纪美国犹太成长小说研究)(英文版)》讲述了：This book is an attempt to apply French sociologist Henri Lefebvre's spatial theory tothe research of the 20th century American-Jewish Bildungsroman. Subject formation inspace embodies the process of Lefebvre's triadic interaction between "spatial practice,""representation of space" and "representational space." Under the production of spatialpower, the Jewish protagonist finally grows up from the individual to the subject byalternatively accepting, refusing or betraying diversities of spatial disciplines of gender,ethnicity and morality.

Introduction

Chapter One TheAmerican-Jewish Bildungsroman

 1.1 Realistic Trend of the First Generation

 1.2 Diversification and Flourishing of the Second Generation

 1.3 Black Humor Trend of the Third Generation

Chapter Two Temporality and Spatiality of Bildung in the

 Bildungsroman

 2.1 Temporal Perspective in the Bildungsroman

 2.2 Spatial Perspective in the Bildungsroman

 2.3 Space-exiled Jewry and Diasporic Identity

Chapter Three Spatial Patterns of Subject Formation in the 20th

 Century American-Jewish Bildungsroman

 3.1 Subject Formation in the 20th Century American-Jewish

 Bildungsroman

 3.2 Gendered Subject Performing in Spatial Shift

 3.3 Raced Subject Passing in Spatial Expansion

 3.4 Self-formation Subject Releasing Psychological Space

Chapter Four Spatial Logic of Subject Formation in the 20th

 Century American-Jewish Bildungsroman

 4.1 Lefebvre's Triadic Space

 4.2 Spatial Behavior of Escape and Intrusion

 4.3 The Ghetto as Space of Heterotopia and Marginal

 Ordering

 4.4 Family/School as Spaces of Discipline and Revolt

 4.5 Urban City as Space of Carnival Performance and Social

 Ordering

Conclusion

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