《红色巴西》:殖民模仿的逆转

The Red Brazil:The Twist of Colonial Imitation

在法国龚古尔大奖获奖作品《红色巴西》中,不是被殖民者模仿殖民者,而是法国殖民者模仿印第安人的行为方式。殖民模仿的逆转重估了印第安人文化,揭示了其潜在的生态思想,反思了西方的殖民文化和人文主义思想。这种叙事模式开辟了殖民者与被殖民者关系的另一条道路,丰富了殖民小说的内容,为人们重新认识殖民历史,甚至修订已有的殖民主义理论提供了新的思路和契机。

In The Red Brazil emerges the twist of the colonial imitation. What the novel describes is not the imitation of the colonizers by the colonized but that of colonized by the colonizers. The twist of the colonial imitation reestimates the native culture, reveals the Indians＇ ecological thinking and reflects on colonialism. Such narration establishes another pattern of the colonizer-colonized relationship, enriches the colonial fiction and offers new possibilities for deeper understanding of colonial history and even for further development of the colonial theory.