《毒木圣经》中殖民意识的矛盾性解读

On the Contradictoriness of Barbara Kingsolver's Colonial Consciousness in The Poisonwood Bible

芭芭拉·金索尔弗是美国当代著名作家,其小说《毒木圣经》自问世以来颇受欢迎,得到了国内外学者的广泛关注。到目前为止,很少有人关注作品中所蕴含的殖民主义意识。本文依据后殖民主义的相关理论,解读作品中的种族主义、东方主义等,阐释金索尔弗的殖民主义倾向。剖析了作者对非洲被殖民者形象的另类塑造、对非洲文化的全新阐释、对殖民主义和帝国主义种种罪行的批判,揭露了殖民主义和帝国主义日趋衰落的必然趋势,体现了金索尔弗的反殖民主义意识。小说将金索尔弗矛盾的殖民意识淋漓尽致地展现出来。

Barbara Kingsolver is a famous American writer, whose The Poisonwood Bible becomes popular since its publication and attracts some scholars＇ attention home and abroad. Up to now, few of Us take care of the colonial consciousness embodied in the novel. This article, based on the theory of postcolonialism, explores the racism, orientalism and Kingsolver＇ s positive attitudes towards colonialism in the novel; meanwhile, the article probes into Kingsolver＇ s depicting of African natives and African culture, her criticizing of the crimes of colonialism and imperialism, and her revealing of the doomed declining tendency of colonialism and imperialism, which embodies Kingsolver＇ s anti-colonialism. Thereupon, The Poisonwood Bible successfully embodies the contradictoriness of Barbara Kingsolver＇ s colonial consciousness.