日裔美國作家山下凱倫的代表作《橘子回歸線》凸顯了后現代社會景觀的流動性,這種流動性表現為多樣的以及變化的景觀。多樣的景觀取決于多元化的人群,變化的景觀反映的則是景觀的建構性。通過景觀的流動性,山下凱倫揭示出后現代社會的特點,那就是人員的頻繁流動,正是人們的流動讓景觀變得豐富多彩;而山下凱倫尤其賦予流動性以深意,期待人們不斷塑造新的景觀,最終能夠建構一個多元和開放的空間。

In her representative work Tropic of Orange, the Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita highlights the fluidity of landscape in postmodern society. While the various postmodern landscapes are determined by diverse groups of people, the changing postmodern landscapes reflect their own constructedness. Through the fluidity of landscape, Yamashita reveals the characteristic mobility of people in postmodern society, which leads to an abundance of landscapes. She endows mobility with significance by expecting people to construct new landscapes and in turn to create a more diversified open space.