后殖民生态视角下的《耻》

APostcolonial-Ecocritical Reading of Disgrace

诺贝尔文学奖得主南非作家库却的小说《耻》寓意丰富,自出版后一直备受评论界关注。本文结合后殖民和生态批评理论,从后殖民生态批评视角,探讨《耻》中展现的种族隔离政策废除之后"新"南非的生态环境状况。《耻》中人与人之间的隔阂与冲突、人类对于土地的过度垦殖和对动物的滥杀表明,南非的生态环境不容乐观。生态环境的恶化是南非殖民历史和种族隔离政策造成的后果。但是《耻》在暴露南非生态环境现状的同时,并没有完全失去对未来的信心。在某种程度上,《耻》呼唤在南非建立一个人与人、人与自然和谐相处的生态环境。

Nobel laureate Coetzee's novel Disgrace is loaded with rich meanings.Read from a postcolonial-ecocritical perspective,the novel manifests the worsening ecological environment in post apartheid South Africa.The eco-environmental problems are reflected through the conflicts between the White and the Black,the appropriation of the land by the White and the 'losening' of animals for the benefit of human beings.These problems are the consequences of South Africa's long history of colonization and racial apartheid.However,hope for the future can still be sensed from the novel.To some extent,Disgrace expresses a call for the construction of a harmonious ecological environment in SouthAfrica.