发展、环境、动物:评《后殖民生态批评》

Development,Environment,Animals: A Reading of Postcolonial Ecocriticism

格雷厄姆.哈根与海伦.蒂芬合著的《后殖民生态批评》一书将后殖民研究与生态批评理论相结合,通过分析具体文学文本探讨了种族主义与物种主义、发展与环境问题、法律权力与情感归属、动物再现、动物保护与本土居民权利等困扰后殖民地区的生态和社会问题,聚焦于发展、环境和动物及其相互关系,指出讨论生态和环境问题必须考虑新旧殖民主义的影响,发展应与生态环境的保护相辅相成,在反思人文主义传统的基础上建构新型的人与非人类自然关系。该书为解读文学文本和干预社会提供了新视角。

Postcolonial Ecocriticism coauthored by Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin brings ecocriticism and postcolonial studies together to discuss such issues confronting the postcolonial society as racism and speciesism,development and environmental problems,entitlement and belonging,representations of animals,animal protection and the rights of local inhabitants,focusing on development,environment,animals and their relations.Through the analysis of literary works,the book points out that the ecological and environmental problems in postcolonial society are closely linked with the colonial and neocolonial practices.Development should not be made at the cost of damaging environment and animals,nor protection of environment and animals be an excuse to hinder development.A brand new human and non-human nature relationship can be established by critiquing humanism.