从文学作品到电影改编——论《宠儿》中的文化霸权思想

From Literary Work to Movie Adaptation——On the Thought of Cultural Hegemony in Beloved

《宠儿》讲述了女性黑奴塞丝在逃亡中为了避免自己的孩子重新沦为奴隶,毅然杀死自己幼女的故事。全书采用多重的叙事技巧,极富艺术感染力,再现了奴隶制统治下的美国社会。然而,作为托尼·莫里森的巅峰之作,其改编的电影却遭受了滑铁卢。通过挖掘小说和电影中体现出的文化霸权思想分析小说《宠儿》改编电影的价值与意义,从而可进一步深化小说反殖民反霸权,重构黑人文化的主题。

Beloved told us the story of the female slave Sethe who resolutely killed her young daughter in order to avoid her child being enslaved again. With its multiple narrative techniques, the novel was artistically appealing to make the representation of American society under slavery. However, as the crowning achievement of Toni Morrison, its adaptation of film suffered a Waterloo. This paper analyzed the value and significance of the adaptation of Beloved for exploring the cultural hegemony reflected in the novel and the film so as to further deepen the anti-colonial and anti-hegemony in the novel and reconstruct the theme of black culture.