摘要
彼得·凯里的《杰克·迈格斯》脱胎于《远大前程》中马戈维奇的故事章节。本文探析迈格斯在母子、父子以及夫妻等家庭谱系中的身份建构及其隐含的政治寓意,认为小说策略性地将澳大利亚民族身份问题置换到私密的家庭空间进行书写,以"他"(迈格斯)的寻根故事(his-story)隐喻大写的国家历史(History)。凯里在重写英国文学经典的基础上树立了一个由浪漫想象构建的澳大利亚家国神话,在这一民族国家诞生的原初场景中,澳洲土著等其他社会阶层被不合时宜地括除在外,就此而言,作者没能超越其白人视角和身份局限。
Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs, written in response to the Magwitch episode in Great Expectations, has been lauded as a milestone of postcolonial novel rewriting. This paper explores the construction of Maggs’ s identity and its political implications within familial genealogies, specifically mother-son, father-son and husband-wife relationships. The novel strategically relocates the question of Australian national identity within the private domestic space and therefore renders the his-story of Maggs’ s root-seeking quest into a metaphor for Australia’s national History. Rewriting the canonical English work, Carey reconstructs the myth of Australia as a family-like nation. However, the exclusion of Aboriginal people and other social classes from this symbolic birth scene indicates the author’s failure to transcend his white ethnocentrism.
作者
陈栩
Chen Xu(International StudiesUniversity, Xi'an, China 710128)
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2019年第1期73-79,共7页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
陕西省教育厅专项科学研究计划"十八世纪英国小说中的服饰话语研究"(16JK1631)
西安外国语大学教改项目"基于微信移动学习的英美文学教学模式研究"(17BYG01)的阶段性成果
