殖民时代的写照——石黑一雄《上海孤儿》的后殖民解读

A Portrait of the Colonial Age:A Postcolonial Interpretation of Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans

本文从后殖民理论入手,重点分析日裔英籍作家石黑一雄的小说《上海孤儿》。文章从人物的身份设定、隐喻的运用及对欧洲中心主义的解构三个方面,展示了石黑一雄开阔的历史胸怀和独特的艺术技巧,反映了殖民时代的孤独与痛苦及欧洲中心主义逐渐瓦解的真实面貌。

The present paper addresses When We Were Orphans （2000）, the latest work of the Japanese British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, from the perspective of postcolonial theories. ,It explores Ishiguro＇ s open-minded historical views and distinctive literary arts through a probe into his setting of the characters in the novel, his use of metaphors, and his deconstruction of the Euro-centralism, thereby revealing people＇ s loneliness and misery in the colonial age and the fall of Euro-centralism.