福克纳和后殖民研究

Faulkner and Post-colonial Studies

本文立足于后殖民大背景,从美国南方研究的前沿动态出发来评判福克纳的小说。文章利用霍米·巴巴、罗伯特·J.C.扬、爱德华·萨义德等人新近的后殖民著作来解释《押沙龙,押沙龙!》和《八月之光》中福克纳对南方与新大陆殖民历史之间关系的再现。由于后殖民理论和分析彻底变革了英国文学研究及其分布广泛的讲英语的前殖民地,美国南方文学研究的时机也已成熟,因而福克纳,尤其是后殖民视域下的福克纳毫无疑问将成为我们在21世纪初评价这位世界级作家的新方式之一。

This paper considers Faulkner's fiction from the standpoint of recent developments in the study of the U.S. South in a post-colonial context, drawing on recent postcolonial work by Homi Bhabha, Robert J.C.Young, Edward Said to interpret Faulkner's representation of the South's relation to the history of New world colonization mainly from Absalom, absalom! and Light in August. Since post-colonial theory and analysis have revolutionized the study of British literature and that of its fair-flung English-speaking ex-colonies, the time is ripe to study U.S. Southern literature and Faulkner especially, from this standpoint. A post-colonial Faulkner will undoubtedly be one of the ways we come ot a new appreciation of Faulkner as a world writer at the beginning of the 21st century.