摘要
《权力问题》是博茨瓦纳作家贝西·黑德的代表作,曾获当代英语小说界的最高奖项“布克奖”提名。小说塑造了具有疯癫形象的主人公伊丽莎白,她时常处于现实与幻觉的交替状态中,伊丽莎白的精神癫狂反映了个体生活与社会存在之间的脱节与错位。小说所建构的空间形态的转换、交叠与迭变,也即伊丽莎白从南非的种族空间转入虚幻的异托邦空间,再重回现实的乌托邦空间,一方面展示了伊丽莎白从精神压抑、疯癫到平和的心路历程,另一方面再现了她从身份混沌、身份危机再到身份认同的自我认知过程。小说通过空间叙事对有色人种的生存困境、精神困境与身份认同问题的艺术呈现,折射了贝西·黑德对非洲种族隔离制度深刻的文化反思,建构了非洲本土文学后殖民书写的独立价值,更为非洲文学“后文明”叙事转向提供新的叙述策略和审美经验。
A Question of Power,a masterpiece by Botswana author Bessie Head,has ever been nominated for the Booker Prize,the highest award in contemporary English-language fiction.The novel portrays the protagonist,Elizabeth,as an insane person,who is often in a state of alternating reality and hallucination,and whose insanity reflects the disconnect and dislocation between her individual life and social existence.The transformation,overlap and iteration of spatial forms constructed in the novel,as Elizabeth’s transition from the racial space of South Africa to the illusory space of heterotopia and then back to the utopia space of reality,on the one hand,shows Elizabeth’s journey from mental repression,madness to peace,and on the other hand,reproduces her self-cognitive process from identity confusion,identity crisis to identification.The novel’s artistic presentation of the survival dilemmas,spiritual dilemmas and identity problems of colored people through spatial narratives reflects Bessie Head’s profound cultural reflection on the African apartheid system,constructs the independent value of postcolonial writing in African indigenous literature,and provides new narrative strategies and aesthetic experiences for the"post-civilizational"narrative turn in African literature.
作者
胡星怡
黄晖
HU Xing-yi;HUANG Hui(School of Chinese Language and Literature,Central China Normal University,Wuhan 430079,Hubei,China)
出处
《景德镇学院学报》
2022年第5期1-6,共6页
Journal of JingDeZhen University
基金
国家社科基金重大项目(19ZDA296)。
