笛福的文本以及对殖民主义的批判

An analysis on Defoe's text and criticism on colonialism

本文试图通过对笛福笔下鲁滨逊不断变化的身份、鲁滨逊和星期五的关系、小岛的象征意义以及小说中描写的强奸、屠杀和暴力等情节的分析来重新解构《鲁滨逊漂流记》,并得出如下结论:《鲁滨逊漂流记》和许多其他文学作品一样能够被列入帝国文本,在对它的解读中,我们能够发现其中所折射出的殖民历史和殖民思想,同时现实世界也要求我们对《鲁滨逊漂流记》这样的经典文本进行彻底的后殖民重构。

Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe in the year 1704,which aroused great attention after its' publication.The novel vividly reflected the spiritual features of the then rising bourgeoisie and has become an important cultural archive of European colonial narratives.It still leaves influence on the field of literature criticism and ideology nowadays.This paper tries to reread Robinson Crusoe and criticize colonialism through analyzing the constant change of Robinson Crusoe,Robinson's relation with Friday,the symbolic implication of the island and rapes,massacre and violence described in the text.