后殖民离散诗学与自我建构——卡里尔·菲利普斯及其短篇小说《成长的烦恼》

Diasporic Poetics and Self Construction in a Postcolonial Context:Caryl Phillips and His Short Story "Growing Pains"

英国当代作家卡里尔·菲利普斯的历史书写从被殖民者的角度重写了代表殖民者意志的殖民历史,揭示了另外一种真实,让昔日沉默的"他者"得以发声。作为一个整体,他的作品建构了一种以流动性、矛盾性、异质性、颠覆性为特征的后殖民离散诗学。他的自传体短篇小说《成长的烦恼》以极其简单的线条勾勒出一个移民作家前二十八年的生活写照和对身份的求索,并说明后殖民语境中的自我建构是历史与现实、冲突与协商的结果,永远是一个动态的过程。这个过程是无奈和被迫的选择,同时又孕育着生机、活力和希望。

Contemporary British writer Caryl Phillips's historical narrative rewrites the colonial history shaped by colonizers' ideology from the perspective of the colonized. It reveals another truth,thereby giving voice to the once silenced 'Other'. As a whole,his works constitute a postcolonial poetics characterized by fluidity,ambivalence,heterogeneity,and subversion. His autobiographical short story 'Growing Pains' sketches in very simple lines an immigrant writer's life in 28 years and his search for identity. It also indicates that the construction of self in a postcolonial context is a result of conflict and negotiation between history and present. This will always be a dynamic process,which is a helpless and forced choice,but also breeds vigor,vitality and hope.