《都柏林人》中的空间隐喻与精神瘫痪

Spatial Metaphors and Spiritual Paralysis in Dubliners

殖民时代的都柏林充斥着官方机构主导的作为殖民统治外在表征的建筑景观,城市居民特别是天主教阶层身处其中却无法得到家园式的安全感,丧失了认知图绘能力。以城市空间、"菲勒斯"空间和西部空间为聚焦点,《都柏林人》中殖民权力对都柏林城市地理和都柏林人心理图景进行了深刻的塑造,殖民权力以空间为媒介对个体身体行为和心理感受施加了决定性影响,导致了被殖民者进一步的他者化和精神瘫痪。

Colonial Dublin was glutted with officially-dominated achitectures which served as representations of colonial rule, hence the colonized especially the Catholics were deprived of the sense of home and the ability of cognitive mapping. The paper focuses on the urban, the Phallus, and the western space to expose the penetrating inscription of colonial powers to the Dublin geography and the Dubliners＇ psychology. Through space, colonial powers exert a decisive influence on individuals＇ physical and psychological activities, and finally lead to the otherization and spiritual paralysis of the colonized.