摘要
本文围绕吉尔罗伊的"黑色大西洋"概念解读加拿大黑人作家劳伦斯·希尔的代表作《黑人之书》。吉尔罗伊反对民族主义和文化绝对主义,提出从"路径"而非"根源"的角度进行黑人文化研究,强调奴隶制记忆以及从奴隶视角对现代性的重审。《黑人之书》牵引出对18世纪大西洋奴隶贸易的创伤记忆,并借助新奴隶叙事彰显黑人主体性以及对现代性的反思,呼应了吉尔罗伊的理论主张。然而,吉尔罗伊虽然倡导跨民族理念,却在"黑色大西洋"的构建中忽视了大西洋国家加拿大,《黑人之书》则通过回溯美国独立战争期间黑人的北迁史,确证了加拿大在非洲流散中的关键位置,丰富了"黑色大西洋"的维度,同时揭示出加拿大种族主义的历史源流,为认清加拿大多元文化社会实质提供了读本。
This article approaches Lawrence Hill＇s masterpiece The Book of Negroes with reference to the concept of ＂the Black Atlantic＂ as proposed by Paul Gilroy. Opposing nationalism and cultural absolutism, Gilroy advocated ＂routes＂ rather than ＂roots＂ as the point of departure for black cultural studies, emphasizing the memory of slavery and the reexamination of modernity from the slaves＇ perspective. The Book of Negroes dovetails with Gilroy＇s theoretical proposition by evoking traumatic memories of the Atlantic slave trade of the eighteenth century and by highlighting black subjectivity and the need to rethink modernity through neo-slave narrative. Gilroy, however, fails to address the case of Canada, an Atlantic country, in his construction of ＂the Black Atlantic＂. The Book of Negroes, in contrast, reenacts the history of black migration in North America during the American Revolution to confirm the vital position of Canada in African diaspora. The book not only enriches the dimensions of ＂the Black Atlantic,＂ but it also sheds light on Canadian multiculturalism by revealing the historical presence of racism in Canada.
作者
綦亮
Qi Liang(the School of Foreign Languages,Suzhou University of Science and Technolog)
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2018年第3期90-97,共8页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
国家社科基金项目"加拿大黑人英语小说研究"(16BWW081)的阶段性成果
江苏高校"青蓝工程"资助
