勃朗特用印度墨水写了什么?——论《简·爱》的爱尔兰东方主义

What did Bront? Write in India Ink? Irish Orientalism in Jane Eyre

在维多利亚时代,使印度文明化被英国人视为一项伟大的工作,从某种意义上说,传教士是国家和帝国认同的象征。女传教士被视为女英雄和拓荒者。夏洛蒂·勃朗特的简·爱大胆地拒绝了在印度当一个毫无怨言的基督教殉难者、忠实的传教士妻子的责任。这是爱尔兰东方主义的典型表征。夏洛蒂对印度萨蒂的矛盾态度,提供了爱尔兰事务性评论的寓言,具有托马斯·摩尔所谓的“应用的双重性”特征。简身上的殖民与反殖民冲动并存是爱尔兰的策略与叙事特征。检视夏洛蒂描写的印度,有助于进一步探索内部殖民群体如何参与宗主国政治主权、现代民族主义、帝国事业的公开辩论。

In Victorian times, making India civilized was regarded as a great work, and in some sense, the missionary is the symbol of national and imperial identity. Women missionaries were taken as heroines and pioneers. However, Charlotte Bront?’s Jane Eyre boldly shied away from the responsibility of being an uncomplaining wife of a Christian martyrdom and dutiful missionary in India. This is a typical representation of Irish Orientalism. The author’s contradictory attitudes towards India’s suttee offers allegorical commentary on Irish affairs, having what Thomas Moore called a“doubleness of application.”Moreover, both imperial and anti - colonial impulses at the same time in Jane Eyre are characteristic of Irish strategies and narratives. Examining Bronte’s Indian writing will help us to further explore the means by which members of an internal colony might engage public debate in the metropole about political sovereignty, modern nationalism, and the imperial project.