基兰·德赛《继承失落的人》中“移置”的叙事策略和意图

The Narrative Strategy and Intention of “Displacement” in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss

在2006年"布克文学奖"(Booker Prize)得主基兰·德赛的获奖作品《继承失落的人》中,作者以小说的虚构手法处理了后殖民语境下"地方"与"移置"的复杂关系。文章针对既往《继承失落的人》研究中较少涉及的叙事分析,借助西方叙事学和后殖民批评理论中的"移置"概念,分析该小说如何将"移置"作为叙事策略建构情节、塑造人物,以及此种叙事策略所营造的叙事效果,最后落脚于"移置"的叙事策略背后的叙事意图,试图以此揭开基兰·德赛在解殖民(de-colonial)、去中心化、批判帝国主义文化霸权(culture hegemony)等方面所作的努力。

In his novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai, the winner of the Booker Prize in 2006, managesto handle the complex relationship between ＂space＂ and ＂displacement＂ in a fictional manner. By applying the western narratology and the critical theory of post-colonialism, esp. the concept of displacement, this paper at- tempts to analyze the narrative strategy of the novel so as to figure out how the author has utilized displacement as a narrative strategy to construct plots and to portray figures, what narrative effects of this strategy has, and what its narrative intention is, etc. so as to uncover Kiran Desai＇ s efforts in decolonizing and criticizing imperialist culture hegemony, etc.