CAJ | 학술논문

富兰克林洞悉身份之要义，其自传更是一部有关身份的文本寓言，满含有关身份追求与建构的隐喻。然而，富兰克林理想身份的定义远远超越了单一的自传文本，而是在其墓志铭、遗嘱、自传等多重文本和历史语境中，书写了一个“三位一体”式的身份神话，即将自己作为印刷人的职业身份、作为诗意作家的艺术身份、作为隐喻国父的文化身份融为一体，从而将个人在职业和艺术层面的身份诉求升华为国家和民族在文化层面的集体认同。
부란극림동실신빈지요의，기자전경시일부유관신빈적문본우언，만함유관신빈추구여건구적은유。연이，부란극림이상신빈적정의원원초월료단일적자전문본，이시재기묘지명、유촉、자전등다중문본화역사어경중，서사료일개“삼위일체”식적신빈신화，즉장자기작위인쇄인적직업신빈、작위시의작가적예술신빈、작위은유국부적문화신빈융위일체，종이장개인재직업화예술층면적신빈소구승화위국가화민족재문화층면적집체인동。
Benjamin Franklin knows clearly the significance of identity,and his autobiography is a textual allegory about identity,which reveals a metaphor of identity pursuit and construction. However,the construc-tion of Franklin’s ideal identity goes far beyond his autobiography,but is embedded in the historical and multi-textual context of his epitaph,wills and autobiography,among which Franklin has converged his profes-sional identity as a printer,artistic identity as a poetic writer and cultural identity as a metaphorical national father into an inseparable integration,thus presenting before the world a myth of“trinitarian”identity. In this way,Franklin managed subliming his personal identity pursuit in profession and art into the whole nation’s collective recognition on the cultural level.