摘要
莫桑比克著名作家米亚·科托的首部长篇小说《梦游之地》以魔幻化手法描述了莫桑比克内战的残酷现实和深远影响,曾被誉为20世纪最伟大的非洲小说之一。小说采用图像化叙事想象、描绘莫桑比克内战中的生命形态和现实状况;透过多维度异化反映战争对人性的扭曲与摧残;运用时间断裂的书写方式暗示历史的塌陷,折射出战争带来的信仰危机和身份危机。本文通过分析以上三个层面所呈现的魔幻化战争书写,探究科式魔幻现实主义的独特之处,及其在非洲文化语境中的现实意义。科托将现实与魔幻视为一体,借助魔幻化书写方式反思战争的毁灭性及其遗毒恶果,揭示非洲民族历史传统被"马赛克"化的殖民倾向,以期通过文字来重绘整个莫桑比克。
Mia Couto has been hailed as one of the most prominent writers in Mozambique. His first novel Terra Sonambula, greeted as one of the greatest African novels in the 20 th century, describes the cruelty and far-reaching influence of Mozambique civil war in a magical manner. It uses visionary narrative to map out life states and actual facts of the civil war, and employs the device of alienation to disclose the distortion of humanity. Meanwhile, it adopts disruptive temporality to reflect the collapse of history and the crisis of belief and identity. Based on the analyses of Couto’s magical devices of writing war from the three dimensions above, the paper attempts to explore the unique characteristics of Couto’s magical writing as well as their realistic significance in African cultural context. It is argued that Couto, deeming reality and magic as one entity, draws on magical writing to reflect on the destruction of the civil war and its residual, to unveil the colonial inclination of mosaicizing African national history, and to verbally remap the whole Mozambique as well.
出处
《复旦外国语言文学论丛》
2020年第1期134-140,共7页
Fudan Forum on Foreign Languages and Literature
