华盛顿·欧文小说《瑞普·凡·温克尔》中的帝国主义叙事

Imperialist Narrative in Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

华盛顿·欧文是美国历史上第一个享有国际声誉的作家,他因散文集《见闻札记》(其中第一集包括《瑞普·凡·温克尔》)的出版在英美文学界名声大噪。传统普遍的观点认为《瑞普·凡·温克尔》是一部关于美国殖民地前后的历史小说。但是,小说的历史性叙述不会禁止我们发现另外一个真实:《瑞普·凡·温克尔》不仅叙述了美国殖民地前后的社会历史变更,更重要的是复制了帝国主义意识形态话语,在不经意间流露出强烈的殖民主义倾向。

Washington Irving is best known for his stories Rip Fan Winkle which appears in his collections, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Some critics were inclined to read Irving＇s Rip Fan Winkle as a historical novel. There is, however, a truth we can＇t ignore that imperial ideology can be found operating, sometimes, invisibly but almost always effectively in the novel.