帶有新英格蘭沿海背景的地方色彩小說，薩拉·奧內·朱厄特的《針樅之鄉》(1896) 其具有穿透性質的藩籬寫作風格，將作者對新英格蘭老式花園造景的描繪以及小說內的相關故事串聯成一體。朱厄特有意透過展示緬因州的田園風光，以促進人們對鄉村生活方式的尊重，並體認到地方文化遺產的價值。開始於一個地方的沿海小漁村鄧尼特·蘭丁，我們看見地方上古老的鮑登家族是如何與當地的居民互動，最後結束於威廉和以斯帖的婚禮，象徵著家園與地方文化的融合。本文主要以匿名敘述者的視角探討外地人如何在異地產生家的歸屬感。從一開始，以訪客的身分對當地文化而有的客觀認知，到逐漸成熟為以親密朋友的身分對地方社區而有的情感連結。同時，在身分以及認知轉變的過程中，也重新定位其個體對家園本身的想法。從一個原本僅是地圖上某個地理名詞的鄧尼特·蘭丁，到與融入當地的風土民情，到最後將一切對土地所產生的所有情感依戀歸於以婚姻作為永久性盟約的象徵，朱厄特的敘事為家園的概念打開一條通往實踐的路。

As a local color novel with a New England coastal setting, Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) and its associated stories bound its old-fashioned garden landscape with permeable fences. Jewett displays the pastoral landscape to promote respect for regional lifeways and the value of cultural heritage beyond rural life in Maine. Starting from Dunnet Landing, the novel’s fishing village, we reach the emblematic Bowden family’s interaction with other local residents and ends up with the symbolic integration of William and Esther’s wedding. From the anonymous narrator’s perspective, we explore how an outsider builds a sense of belonging to an alien place and ripens her visitor’s perception of local culture into a friend’s affinity for the community while transforming the idea of homeland itself. From knowing Dunnet Landing only as a name on the map, to integrating with its people and their customs, to finally ringing all the emotional attachments to the land with marriage as the symbol of perpetual covenant, Jewett’s narratives paves the conception of homeland a way that is still and always to be realized.

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