论康拉德小说中“白色神话”的颠覆

On the Subversion of "White Myth" in Conrad's Fictions

长期以来,文学批评界就康拉德对殖民主义到底持何种态度众说纷纭。本文试图从殖民者角度出发,结合黑格尔、拉康关于"自我"的哲学理论,分析康拉德作品中白人殖民者形象。在他的小说中康拉德通过描述西方殖民者在殖民地的所作所为,指出殖民主义进程不仅给殖民地人民造成灾难性的毁灭,而且反过来让西方殖民者在权力和欲望下不能自拔。他们逐渐暴露出人性最黑暗的一面,一步步走向死亡的深渊。西方社会的白色神话由此遭到了彻底的颠覆。

For a long time, there is a hot debate on the problem of Joseph Conrad＇s colonial attitude. This article attempts to analyze several Conrad＇s novels from the perspective of colonialist on the basis of Hegel and Lacan＇s philosophical theory on self/ego. In his novel concerned, Conrad describes what western colonialists do in their colonies, which brought disastrous destroy to the colonial people. But on the other way round the colonialization calls the deepest darkness of human nature and drives colonialists themselves to tragedy. Thus the white myth of the western civilization has been drastically subverted.