摘要
本文认为《血色子午线》蕴含着一个政治潜文本,即对美国参加越战的回应。麦卡锡在小说中不仅揭露支撑西进运动的"天定命运"背后所隐匿的国家意识形态的虚伪性,还编织潜文本,批判美国参与越战的帝国主义行为,远瞻到西进运动的征服精神被国家意识形态利用来为70年代以降的美国政治事务作辩护的现象。越战便是这种现象的最佳脚注。麦卡锡用充满暴力和血腥的西部喻指美军在越南战场上的暴力行径和恐怖杀戳,警醒美国民众不要被国家意识形态所蒙蔽。这些思想表现出作家对美国帝国主义意识形态的强烈谴责,具有深刻的现实意义。
This essay investigates the political subtext of Blood Meridian,that is,the response to American involvement in Vietnam War.McCarthy,apart from revealing the hypocrisy of state ideology which lies behind "Manifest Destiny"in the Westward Movement,weaves the subtext to criticize America's imperialist behavior of involving in Vietnam War.He also foresees the phenomenon that the spirit of conquest in the Westward Movement has been appropriated by state ideology to justify American political affairs since 1970s.Vietnam War is the best footnote to such a phenomenon.McCarthy,by using the violent and bloody West as a metaphor for American soldiers' violent acts and horrible killings in Vietnam War,warns Americans from being deceived by state ideology.These ideas,which reflect the author's intense condemnation of imperialist ideology of America,have profound realistic significance.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2013年第3期81-91,共11页
Contemporary Foreign Literature