解读《铁蹄》中的帝国话语

The Imperial Discourse in The Iron Heel

杰克·伦敦的《铁蹄》是一部无产阶级革命作品,体现了以埃弗哈德为代表的无产阶级推翻资产阶级实现"大同世界"的理想。作品中对白人埃弗哈德男性气概的塑造、对美国"铁蹄"统合全球的构想、对美国社会主义者作为"大同世界"主宰力量的暗示受到了20世纪初美国海外扩张、民族主义意识形态的影响,隐含了作者对种族、民族与阶级等问题的思考。通过将《铁蹄》置于历史和地缘政治视域下,探讨世纪之交帝国话语政治对作家身份、民族叙事的塑形作用,追溯伦敦社会主义思想的局限性之源。

The Iron Heel by Jack London is a proletarian revolutionary work, reflecting the ideal that the proletariat overthrows the bourgeoisie to achieve the Brotherhood of Man （B.O.M.）.London’s shaping of the white masculinity of the character Everhard,the idea of the American Oligarch’s integrating the world,and the implication of the American socialists’ being the dominant force in the realization of B.O.M.are inevitably affected by America’s nationalist ideology during its overseas expansion in the early twentieth century,implying the writer’s exploration of race,nation and class,etc.From the historical and geopolitical perspectives,the role of imperial discourse in The Iron Heel was explored in the shape of writer identity and national narratives,and the limitations of London’s socialist thoughts were traced.