多丽斯·莱辛非洲作品中的“神秘”比喻

Trope of Mystery and Wonder in Doris Lessing's African Works

广袤的非洲在殖民主义文学中通常蒙上了一层神秘的面纱,打上了殖民主义想象的烙印,现于笔端的或者是"邪恶、堕落之地",或者是白人移民逃避现代文明桎梏的"世外桃源"。在多丽丝.莱辛以非洲为背景创作的作品中,非洲作为"他者"形象,也经过了作者殖民主义想象的加工,呈现出两种对峙的意象。莱辛在作品中借用了"神秘"比喻这一殖民主义文学中常见的表征模式。这种反复借用无疑巩固了殖民体系,在很大程度上削弱了其对殖民统治罪恶的批判。

Mysteriously veiled and deeply marked by colonial imagination, the vast African continent in the colonial literature is represented either as a dystopia where evil prevails or as a utopia where white settlers can escape from the yoke of modern civilization. Africa in Doris Lessing＇s African stories, as the image of the Other, is also tainted by her colonial imagination, presenting two diametrically different types of images. Lessing＇s frequent resort to the trope of mystery and wonder, a common mode of cultural representation, practically strengthens the colonial system, thus weakening her criticism of colonial evils to a large extent.