摘要
巴巴拉·贝恩顿是19世纪末20世纪初深受《公报》推崇的妇女作家,虽然与澳大利亚民族文学的奠基人亨利·劳森和A·B·佩特森等一样热衷澳大利亚丛林生活题材,但是却以哥特式小说另辟蹊径。与同时代的上述作家不同,贝恩顿从丛林女性视点出发,展现女性在阴森恐怖的丛林中,处于一种绝望、孤苦无援的境地,表达作者对丛林生活的独到理解和感触。由于白人历史不够悠久,澳大利亚长期以来被认为缺乏欧洲所谓的哥特式小说滋生的古堡文化。然而贝恩顿的短篇小说却证明了哥特式小说被成功移植到澳洲有了新的发展,并使其具有了独特的澳洲特色。
Barbara Baynton was a female writer honoured by ＂Bulletin＂ in the late 19th century. She was enthusiastic about the theme of Australian jungle life like the national writers Henry Lawson and A. B. Paterson, but she was a gothic writer. The tone of her work piquantly contrasted with that of her Aus-tralian contemporaries. From a female perspective, she displayed the loneliness, hopelessness and despera- tion in the gloomy and melancholic jungle. It was an established idea that Australia has a relatively short history, thus lack of castellated culture, and has yielded few gothic stories. However, Baynton＇s short stories proved that the gothic story has grafted into Australia and taken on an Australian feature.
作者
姜雪梅
Jiang Xuemei(School of Foreign Languages, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China)
出处
《辽宁师范大学学报（社会科学版）》
2017年第4期104-109,共6页
Journal of Liaoning Normal University(Social Science Edition)
