摘要
作为一种以西方意识形态为背景的类型文艺,科幻小说中长期充斥着以“西方中心论”为特质的话语。而英国作家阿瑟·克拉克则在其科幻创作中,有意无意地呈现了对“科幻西方”的一种解构。这尤其鲜明地体现于他围绕“沉默巨物”意象展开的三种美学演绎:通过重新塑造飞船悬停于城市上空的场景,克拉克将欧洲文学中的神学哲思传统与科幻题材相融合;他对外星文明遗迹的描绘,在宏大尺度上消解了西方文明的例外论;他对“太空电梯”的格外推崇,则进一步反映了他在技术时代的浪漫主义理想。以阿瑟·克拉克为例,我们可以看到真正有价值的科幻创作,需要在解构“科幻西方”的基础上实现超越。
As a genre literature based on Western ideology,science fiction has long been filled with the discourse of Western-centrism.However,the classic works of British writer Arthur C.Clarke has presented a deconstruction of the“Science Fiction West”,unconsciously and intentionally.And it is particularly evident in his three aesthetic interpretations of the“Big Dumb Objects”image.By reimagining the scene of a spaceship hovering over the city,Clarke fuses the theological and philosophical traditions of European literature with science fiction themes.His depiction of the ruins of alien civilizations dissolves the Western Exceptionalism on a grand scale.And his extraordinarily high regard for the Space Elevator further reflects his romantic ideals in the technological age.Taking Arthur C.Clarke as an example,we can see that a truly transcendent science fiction always deconstructs the“Science Fiction West”first.
作者
徐岱
盛政经
Xu Dai;Sheng Zhengjing(College of Media and International Culture,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058)
出处
《浙江社会科学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2024年第1期132-141,共10页
Zhejiang Social Sciences
关键词
阿瑟·克拉克
科幻小说
科幻西方
意象
沉默巨物
Arthur C.Clarke
science fiction
science fiction west
image
big dumb objects
