摘要
库切的小说《等待野蛮人》、《伊丽莎白·考斯特罗》、《慢人》、《凶年纪事》等较早的作品都或多或少涉及到了接待外人或难民的问题,而2013年出版的小说《耶稣的童年》似乎更深层地触及了这类问题。本文试图将这部小说与德里达《论好客》中的"外人问题"和"好客/不好客指南"进行对读,探讨库切在这部小说中如何应对接待外人的问题。本文通过聚焦于库切小说中的语言和教学问题发现,库切揭示了这些实例总是利用着既有的物质条件,并由此颠覆了德里达关于无条件好客和有条件好客的区分。最后,本文认为,库切的这部小说通过呈现出德里达所言的"好客之道"遭到破坏的外乡荒凉惨淡的情形,提醒世人有必要坚持或者回到柏拉图式的无条件、无节制的好客理想。
J. M. Coetzee＇s previous novels such as Waitingfor the Barbarians, Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man, and Diary of a Bad Year have more or less dealt with ＇gating＇ foreigner or refugee issues, but The Childhood of Jesus （2013） appears to exacerbate these issues. This essay will examine how Coetzee＇s novel engages with the question of hospitality for the refugee by reading it alongside Jacque Derrida＇s two seminars in Of Hospitality, ＂Foreigner Question＂ and ＂Step of HospitalitylNo Hospitality.＂ This essay will fix this comparative reading in the text by relating it to Coetzee＇s treatment of language and pedagogy in the novel. This essay suggests that Coetzee is subverting the Denidean distinction between unconditional hospitality and conditional hospitality by showing how the case examples always take the material conditions as given. Ultimately, this essay suggests that Coetzee＇s novel reminds us of the need to hold on and return to the Platonic ideal of unconditional, unconditioned hospitality by presenting a bleak, dismal foreign country where what Derrida calls ＂the law of hospitality＂ is violated.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第1期35-44,共10页
Foreign Literature Studies
关键词
库切
《耶稣的童年》
德里达
好客
外人问题
J. M. Coetzee The Childhood of Jesus Jacques Derrida hospitality foreigner question
