文化身份的男权书写:解读V.S.奈保尔的小说《河湾》

On V.S.Naipaul's Patriarchical Writing of Cultural Identity in A Bend in the River

作为当代英语文学世界颇具争议的移民作家,奈保尔在欧美批评界广受赞誉并获诺贝尔文学奖,而其作品的非洲叙事却受到后殖民批评界的猛烈批判。对奈保尔的解读过分集中在对后殖民文化政治的分析,反而忽略了其作品的性别批评空间。本文运用相关女性主义理论,以性别研究为视角解读奈保尔代表作《河湾》,分析作品中文化身份与男权叙事的隐性关系,在对奈保尔文学经验的总结中批判其作品的父权意识与性别政治。

As one of the most controversial immigrant novelists in the English world, V.S. Naipaul enjoys a universal fame, while his narrative of a post - colonial Africa has been fiercely attacked by those critics from the Third- world countries. The overemphasis on the political analysis unnecessarily limites the critical interests and simply ignores the implications of gender studies. With the application of the related feminism theories, this essay intends to reread Naipaul＇ s novel A Bend in the River from the perspective of gender studies, explore into the complex relationship between historical memories and patriarchical writing and provide the work with a new interpretation of gender trouble, while criticizing the patriarchical ideology and gender politics embodied in Naipaul and his literary works.