霍米·巴巴阈限空间思想刍议

Understanding Homi K. Bhabha's Idea of Liminal Space

霍米·巴巴后殖民主义理论中的第三空间是一种阈限空间,是具有临界性和阈限性特质的、包容张力和外延的新的思维模式和理论范式。这种阈限空间是力图摆脱二元对立并寻求确立新的身份构建与话语权力的临界的他者空间,这一他者是囿于本民族内的"他者",亦是他民族内的"他者",被双方双向视为"异类",从而形成了独特的介于民族内与他民族之间的双重他者抵制策略,这种非正面对抗式的模式和策略不仅削弱了殖民者的话语权威与殖民权力,也在一定程度上实现介于之间的文学话语发声景观。矛盾性、混杂性,模拟和文化翻译是阈限空间主要的解构与阐释策略,其理论指向为文学理论中的文化断裂弥合和他者身份话语建构,前景为多元文化视阈交融中的阈限空间理论。

The Third Space in Homi Bhabha＇s postcolonial theory is a space that features criticality and liminality. This liminal space tolerates contradiction and expansion and produces new thinking patterns. It is the space of the other, which seeks to abandon the division between opposites and searches for new discursive power and identity in between. As a non-confrontational resistance strategy, it not only weakens the colonist＇s power and authority but also forms a particular in-between style. Ambivalence, hybridity, mimicry and cultural translation characterize the liminal space, theoretically leading to the healing of cultural rift and possibility of identity construction.