试论《死者年鉴》中的时间政治

The Politics of Time in Silko's Almanac of the Dead

时间是当代美国印第安女作家西尔科小说《死者年鉴》中的中心意象。在印第安人与西方人迥异的时间观里,时间具有循环性和政治性。在《死者年鉴》中,西尔科彰显印第安人传统的时间理念,质询西方父权制线性时间观的思维定势,将欧美殖民者的核殖民和文化掠夺的霸权主义历史暴露在公众视野之下,呼吁印第安人积极行动起来,重新夺回失去的土地。在澄清历史积淀的过程中,作者凸显时间政治的当下意义,从而揭示小说时间政治背后潜藏的历史与文化内涵。

Time is the central image in Almanac of the Dead authored by native American woman writer Leslie Marmon Silko.Time possesses two features: the circularity and politics of time in the native American concept of time.Silko aims to highlight the traditional concept of time in American Indian culture to subvert western patriarchal linear concept of time,disclose the hegemonic crimes of nuclear colonization and cultural exploitation committed by Euro-American colonizers,and call out American Indians to reclaim their lost land.In the process of clarifying history,the author places stress upon the current significance of the politics of time to reveal the potential historical and cultural implication behind it.