从后殖民视角看小说《耻》中的边缘群体

A Post-colonial Reading of the Marginal Groups in Disgrace

库切的小说《耻》展现了后种族隔离时期南非的社会面貌。在新南非的后殖民语境中,白人失去了话语权和土地,与动物他者一样沦为边缘群体。后殖民主义为种族他者发声,而后殖民生态批评则将关怀的范畴扩展至动物他者。在这两种学说所构成的后殖民视角中,南非特殊历史条件下形成的种族他者与动物他者的边缘境遇得以审视。在库切的叙事中,动物生存范式对于边缘群体具有重要的参照意义。

J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace reveals the social landscape of the post-apartheid South Africa. In the post-colonial context of new South Africa,the whites lost their discourse and land;they fell into the edge of the society and lived as the animal others. Post-colonialism gives voice to the racial others and postecocriticism extends the scope of concern to animal others. From the post-colonial perspective constituted of these two theories,the marginal situations of racial others and animals others formed under the particular historical conditions of South Africa are examined. In Coetzee’s narrative,the life paradigm of animals sets a good example to the marginal groups which are searching for way out.