艾丽丝·门罗的短篇小说《荒野小站》书写加拿大的建国神话与民族国家身份之间千丝万缕的联系。小说采用哥特式荒野叙事手法,展现加拿大早期移民在建国过程中因为时空位移的改变而造成的位置困惑和身份焦虑。小说描写的加拿大建国神话事实上是新旧符号体系的碰撞,给早期移民带来了巨大的冲击,使他们追求身份的道路更加曲折;而故事中书信体的应用则打破了关于加拿大建国神话的一统化叙事模式,促进人们深入思考民族国家身份问题。 Alice Monroe’s short story, The Wilderness Station, chronicles the inextricable connection between Canada’s myth of nationhood and the nation-state identity. The novel adopts the gothic wilderness narrative technique to show the confusion and identity anxiety caused by the change of the space-time displacement of the early immigrants in Canada during their founding. The myth of the founding of Canada in the novel is in fact a collision of the old and the new symbolic systems, which has brought tremendous impact on the early immigrants and made their path of pursuit more tortuous. However, the application of the epistle in the story breaks the unity of Canadian mythology Narrative mode, to promote people to think deeply about the issue of national identity.