后殖民视角下《我的位置》解读

Analysis on My Place from Post-colonial Perspective

已有200多年殖民史的澳大利亚,在殖民主义文化霸权下,土著文化遭到很大程度的破坏和同化,土著居民的民族意识逐渐淡化。具有很强民族自尊心的土著作家萨利·摩根在她的作品《我的位置》中从土著人的视角重新讲述殖民地的真实情况,颠覆了霸权话语下虚假歪曲的历史,使得土著人在长期沉默之后找寻原有的文化身份,重新树立自我意识和民族意识。

Australia, with over 200 years of colonial history, has aboriginal culture greatly destroyed and assimilated by the cultural hegemony of colonialism. Aborigine＇s national consciousness was gradually down-played .Sally Morgan, an aboriginal writer with strong ethnic self - esteem, has depicted the true picture of colony from the viewpoint of aborigines, which to some extent subverted the distorted history of aborigines under the hegemony discourse and made the aborigines began to seek their original cultural identity after long silence and reset their self consciousness and national consciousness.