帝国的崛起与撒旦的诗篇──重解赫尔曼·沃克的二战题材小说

The Rise of Empire and the Satanic Verse:Reinterpretation of Herman Wouk's World War Ⅱ Novels

第二次世界大战是西方帝国叙事由欧洲中心转向美国中心的分水岭,而美国作家赫尔曼.沃克的二战题材小说《战争风云》及其续集《战争与回忆》则通过播撒强权文明、基督重临和大西洋主义等话语,成为以美国为首的西方文化帝国形成的重要标志。为此,志在追求全球文化多元化的中华学人有必要消解和颠覆弥散在沃克创作中的帝国叙事,对其进行后殖民重构。

World War II is a watershed which shifts the Western empire narration center from Eu- rope to the United States, and the American writer Herman Wouk＇ s novels of World War II, which are The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance, mark the establishment of the central position of the United states in the Western cultural empine. Its central position is a- chieved through discourses that include power civilization, Atlanticism and Christ＇ s Second coming. Therefore, Chinese scholars who pursue global cultural diversity need to subvert the em- pire narration which permeates Wouk＇ s works and to reconstruct them in the post-colonial way.