哈尼夫·库雷西戏剧《国王与我》中的成长主题与创伤叙事

The Bildung Motif and Trauma Narrative in Hanif Kureishi's Play The King and Me

库雷西是当下英国文坛上颇具影响力的南亚裔作家。其文学作品大多归为两类:考察社会问题的英国社会状况文学和探讨个体问题的青年成长文学。库雷西创作于1983年的首部戏剧《国王与我》,关注英国撒切尔时代的白人青年工人阶级的生活状况和成长问题。本文针对这部戏剧的成长主题,运用成长和创伤叙事理论,考察两位猫王粉丝的醒悟过程,分析成长主题的阶级动因和性别差异,目的在于从认知发展与情感经验的不同成长模式揭示创伤叙事的性别政治,由此更加深刻理解以库雷西为代表的当下英国移民文学的成长观念和创伤问题。

Kureishi is an influential South-Asian immigrant writer in contemporary British literature. His literary works can be mainly classified into two types, condition of England literature which investigates social issues, and Bildungsroman that explores subjective problems. The King and Me, Kureishi＇ s first play produced in 1983, investigates living conditions and problems of Bildung of white working class youngsters in the Thacherite Britain. This paper, focusing on the motif of Bildung in the play, applies narrative theories of Bildung and trauma, examines different processes of epiphanies of two Elvis fans, and analyzes the class motivation and gender difference in the motif of Bildung. In this way, it aims to expose gender politics of traumatic narratives in two different modes of Bildung： cognitive development and sensible experience. With Kureishi as a typical example, it provides a deeper understanding of the motif of Bildung and the problem of trauma of the immigrant literatures in current Britain.