后殖民主义视阈下族裔人群的“回归之路”——以戴维·达比丁小说《消散》为例

“The Returning Road” of Ethnic Groups from the Perspective of Post-colonialism——A Case Study of David Dabydeen’s Disappearance

小说《消散》以一位圭亚那黑人工程师作为观察对象,以主人公在两国不同维度下,文化身份的认知变迁为线索,深刻揭露了被殖民地区人民普遍存在的文化认同危机。文章基于后殖民主义视阈分析主人公从“自我白化”到找寻本族文化的心路历程,再现了殖民时代结束后,殖民文化对被殖民族群依旧深刻的影响,探寻了族裔人群摆脱“精神殖民”、找寻自我文化属性的根源。

The novel Disappearance takes a black Guyanese engineer as the observational object, and represents the cognition and transformation of cultural identity in different dimensions of two countries. In doing so, it reveals the crisis of cultural identity which commonly exists among residents in colonized areas. Based on the perspective of post-colonialism, this paper analyzes the protagonist’s psychologist transition from having a desire to “whitening” himself to finding his own national culture. It traces back the significant influence of colonial culture to the colonized residents after the end of colonial period, exploring the original reason why ethnic groups should want to get rid of “spiritual colonization” and find their own cultural attributes.