非“东方主义”的印度人的编年史——评奈保尔的《印度:百万叛变的今天》

Non-Orientalism chronicle of India——Comment on Naipaul′s India:A Million Mutinies Now

2001年诺贝尔文学奖得主、英国小说家维.苏.奈保尔是一位备受攻击的人物,其主要原因在于奈保尔没有放弃他的道德立场,质疑、讽刺、批判他的母国印度,因此成了众矢之的,构成了同第三世界的守护者、批判家爱得华·萨义德的冲突。奈保尔被认为是在书写西方人眼中的东方,具有浓烈的"东方主义"色彩。然而,通过对《印度:百万叛变的今天》的文本分析可以发现,奈保尔以知识分子的使命感与责任感,力图客观书写今天印度的百万叛变,并构成了由印度人口述的编年史。因此,结合奈保尔的社会文化背景,读者应以宽容及客观的态度阅读他的作品。

As the Nobel Prize Literature winner in 2001,V.S.Naipaul,an English writer,has ever been under attack because he does not give up his moral stand and oppugn,satirize,criticize his motherland,India.So he becomes the target of public criticism,and generates the conflict with Edward W.Said,a third-world defender and critic.Naipaul is believed that he will describe an Oriental India from the occidental angle and has intense color of Orientalism.However,by analyzing the text of India：A Million Mutinies Now,can find out Naipaul is trying to take on an intellectual′s mission and responsibility to reveal a million mutinies in India objectively,meanwhile forms the as-told-to chronicle by Indian.Therefore,readers should read Naipaul′s works with his social and cultural background and have better take a tolerant attitude towards his works.