《河湾》:后殖民经验的身份书写

The Identity Writing of Post-colonial Memory: On V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River

作为当代英语文学世界最杰出的移民作家之一,奈保尔在欧美批评界广受赞誉,2001年荣获诺贝尔文学奖,但其作品的非洲叙事却不断受到后殖民批评家的激烈批判。针对不同文化的阐释差异和对位性阅读,运用当代后殖民文化理论,以文化身份的视角重新解读《河湾》,分析作品中历史记忆与身份写作的隐性关系,在身份困惑和非洲叙事两层面揭示身份写作的表征内涵,在对奈保尔文学经验的总结中探讨后殖民批评中政治性阅读的某种理论误区。

As one of the most important immigrant novelists in English world, V. S. Naipaul enjoys a universal fame while his historical narrative of postcolonial Africa has been fiercely attacked by those critics from the thirdworld countries. Focusing on the contrastive interpretations and even the contrapuntal readings, this paper rereads Naipaul＇s novel A Bend in the River from the perspective of cultural identity, and provides with an interpretation of cultural identity paradox, while points out some theoretical blind spots of those post-colonist critics in their political treatment of Naipaul and his works.