摘要
诺贝尔文学奖得主、南非作家J.M.库切的小说《等待野蛮人》从自由派知识分子的独特视角出发,对殖民暴力进行了深刻的文学想象与反思。基于库切非洲后殖民文学重要作家的身份,学界主要聚焦该作品对帝国文明和殖民暴政的批判这一人文主义主题。然而,从隐性叙事进程的视角出发,可清晰捕捉到一股抑制人文主义主旨的怀疑主义叙事暗流。该叙事暗流与显性情节发展相互补充和制约,展现了南非白人自由派知识分子在南非内战时期的伦理困境,传达出他们对自身身份既抗拒又同谋的情感结构,进而揭示了南非自由主义身份政治的实践困境与认知悖论。本文在解开小说主角行政长官收留蛮族女孩之“可疑动机”的基础上,进一步从叙事文体的角度,考察小说隐性叙事进程的展开,并深入探讨其所蕴含的文本审美价值及社会历史认知意义。
The Nobel Prize-winning South African writer J.M.Coetzees novel Waiting for the Barbarians offers a profound literary imagination and reflection on colonial violence through the distinctive lens of liberal intellectuals. Based on Coetzee's stature as an important African postcolonial novelist, much attention has been paid to the humanist theme of the novel in its critique of imperial civilization and colonial tyranny. From the perspective of covert progression, however,there exists a narrative undercurrent of skepticism within the novel that inhibits the humanistic thrust. The covert progression complements and constrains the overt plot, demonstrating the ethical dilemmas of white liberal intellectuals in South Africa during the South African Civil War,conveying the emotional structure of their resistance and complicity in their own identities, and thus revealing the paradox of liberal identity politics in South Africa. On the basis of unraveling the mystery of the " suspicious motive" behind the Magistrate's sheltering of a barbarian girl, this paper examines the unfolding of the novel's covert progression and its implied aesthetic and socio-historical cognitive value.
出处
《英语研究》
2025年第2期144-159,共16页
English Studies
基金
国家社会科学基金项目“当代非洲英语后殖民小说与审美现代性研究”(23XWW004)的阶段性成果。
