论《孤独的伦敦人》的城市表达与文化形态

On the Urban Expression and Cultural Form in The Lonely Londoners

特立尼达黑人英语作家塞缪尔·塞尔文的小说《孤独的伦敦人》描写了20世纪50年代从西印度群岛迁往英国的移民在伦敦的生存困境。文章在当代空间批评的理论视阈下以伦敦城市空间为切入点,指出小说的伦敦空间具有城市结构层面和城市体验层面的指向和深层意蕴。伦敦空间的概念内涵超越地理界线的架构,城市在建构日常生活的感受和社会文化问题的表现以及在空间内部权力机制的运作等方面都发挥了重要作用。

The Lonely, Londoners written by Sam Selvon, a black Trinidad English writer, depicts the difficult survival of immigrants in London from the West Indies to Great Britain in the 1950s. The contemporary space theory provides a useful starting point for an analysis of the fiction. This paper examines the signifier and deep implication of London urban space in such aspects as urban structure and urban experiences. The conno- tation of London urban space is beyond the geographical boundaries of architecture, and plays important roles in the construction of everyday experiences and the expression of social and cultural issues as well as the internal operation of power system.