后殖民语境中的《重访加勒比》旅行写作

The Travel Writing of The Middle Passage in Post-colonial Context

从后殖民语境出发,奈保尔的《重访加勒比》旅行写作具有矛盾性与复杂性。一方面,它深受英国维多利亚时期旅行写作传统的影响,并且具有传统民族志式观察角度,甚至在一定程度上模仿了殖民话语的叙述策略。另一方面,它对加勒比地区殖民地人的"模拟"、缺乏历史感、缺失文化创造等问题的批判构成了奈保尔旅行写作的表述原创性所在。此外,奈保尔的独特文化身份所带来的内外双重视角也赋予他的加勒比旅行写作一定的客观性。

V. S. Naipaul＇s travel writing of The Middle Passage reveals its complexity and ambivalence in the light of post-colonial context. On one hand, it is greatly influenced by the rhetoric legacy of Victorian travel writing with a viewing angle of traditionally ethnographic authority. And it even, in a certain sense, imitates the narrative strategy of colonial discourse. On the other hand, V. S. Naipaul demonstrated the attempts on originality by observing and ＂diagnosing＂ such issues as the lack of achievement and creation, the absence of historical knowledge and the mimicry of the colonial West Indies and the Caribbean. In addition, V. S. Naipaul both as an ＂insider＂ and ＂outsider＂ provides himself with double perspectives, enabling him to reach objectivity to some extent.