前卫的反殖民主义者——约瑟夫·康拉德

Joseph Conrad:A Radical Anti-colonialist

在殖民主题上,《吉姆老爷》是约瑟夫.康拉德的重要作品。在《吉姆老爷》里,康拉德表面上把殖民地人民描写成符合"东方主义"的刻板形象,把主人翁吉姆描写成一位功成名就的欧洲贸易代表,让人觉得作者是一位坚定的殖民主义者。但是,通过反讽技巧的运用,通过安排生命、事业都处于颠峰的吉姆的突然死亡,康拉德巧妙地否定了帝国主义的殖民统治,他自己也因此成了后殖民文学的一个先声,一位具有前瞻性的反殖民主义者。康拉德在为帝国叙事、构建"白色神话"的同时,又对其进行了批判,从而解构了帝国神话。

Lord Jim is one of Joseph Conrad＇ s important works on colonialism issues. In Lord Jim, Conrad seemingly describes the colonized people as the ＂stereotypes＂ of Orientalism and writes Jim as a successful and glorious imperialism trade representative, which impresses people that Conrad is a radical colonialist. But, from the use of irony narrative, from his deliberate arrangement of Jim＇ s failure and death at his peak of both life and course, Conrad ingeniously denies the then prevailing Colonialism and hence makes himself a radical anti - colonialist. When narrating for the imperialism and creating the ＂White myth＂, Joseph Conrad criticizes it and deconstructs it at the same time.