吉卜林小说《基姆》中的身份建构

The Identity Construction in Kipling's Novel Kim

本文以英国作家吉卜林的长篇小说《基姆》为分析文本,着重探讨了主人公基姆的身份问题。作为一个成长在印度的爱尔兰裔少年,基姆在身份认同方面的经历揭示了文化身份这一概念的复杂内涵。吉卜林特意突出基姆身上的东西方文化冲突,而淡化甚至于抹除了他的爱尔兰民族传统,这一"盲点"显示出作者为扩大英国性的疆域而做出的饱含深意的努力。英国性在变"空"的同时也变得更富有生命力和发展潜力。这种为自己的生活世界的无限延续所做的"非地域化"的努力对我们理解这部小说以及我们自身和周围世界有着重要的启示意义。

This paper aims to investigate the identity of the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim.As an Irish boy growing up in India,he is puzzled by his cultural identity.In the novel,Kipling highlights the conflict between Kim's love and assimilation of Indian culture and his English identity. But Kim's Irishness is intentionally minimized or even obliterated into nothingness. This 'blindness' shows Kipling's conscious efforts in making 'Englishness' a more inclusive and broader identity.The 'de-territorialization' of the English identity is a re-territorialization and continuation and confirmation of itself in a more significant sense.This helps us better understand the novel and the present world.