论奈保尔在《父子家书》中的印度想象和文化身份认同

The Indian Imagination and Cultural Identification in Naipaul’s Letters between a Father and Son

奈保尔的《父子家书》有两个关注点,即他的印度想象和文化身份认同。他的印度想象具有片面、停滞、自我优越和负面的四个主要特征,这与他的文化身份认同相互影响,经历了一个从抗拒到探寻的过程。奈保尔的文化身份呈现出三个时空维度,这三个时空维度分别是特立尼达、印度与英国,其中每一种文化身份都因为奈保尔的个体经历而时隐时现,或被漠视,或得重视,从这三维文化身份此消彼长的变动,可显出奈保尔自我身份的游移性与跨文化性。

The two focuses of Naipaul’s Letters between A Father and Son are his Indian imagination and cultural identity construction. His Indian imagination has four main characteristics:onesided,stagnant,self-superiority,and negative. This interacts with his cultural identity and goes through a process from resistance to exploration. Naipaul’s cultural identity presents three spatial and temporal dimensions:Trinidad,India,and the United Kingdom. Each of these cultural identities is hidden or ignored or valued sometimes because of Naipaul’s experience. From the change of this three-dimensional cultural identity,it can be shown that Naipaul’s self-identity is mobile and cross-cultural.