怪异性:后现代叙事美学的新维度

Monstrosity:A New Dimension in A Postmodern Aesthetics of Narrative

安德鲁.吉布森把叙事中的二元对立结构称为人类学二分体。他从现代和后现代小说家和当代理论对这种思想结构的前提进行抵制的努力中发现人和非人的不可分离性,并将其归之为一个超越普通的人类学结构而指向结构之外的一个场所的"怪物性"概念。他不但使后现代对怪异性的关注如其所是地清晰地表述出来,还试图将其建构为后现代叙事美学的一个新维度。在这个过程中,结构主义和接受理论的人类学二分体的固定性假设和政治缺陷暴露无遗;通过分析女性主义科幻小说和贝克特的三部曲,吉布森证明怪异性思想是一种解放性的思想。

In Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative, Andrew Gibson calls the structure of dual oppositions in narrative an anthropological dyad. From the resistance of that structure by modern and postmodern novelists and contemporary theory, however, he demonstrates that the human is inseparable from the non-human, and designates it monstrosity, which gestures towards a site outside the anthropological dyad. Gibson not only renders the postmodern concern with monstrosity articulated as such but seeks also to construct it as a new dimension in a postmodern aesthetics of narrative. In the process, he exposed the assumptions of fixity and the political inadequacy that are intrinsic both to structuralism and reception theory. The analysis of the feminist science fiction and Beckett＇ s trilogy, on the other hand, suggests that the thought of monstrosity is a liberating thought.