黑暗月光下的非洲丛林——《大河湾》的后殖民生态解读

The African Jungles Overshadowed by the Dark Moonlight:Interpretation of A Bend in the River from the Perspective of Postcolonial Ecocriticism

从后殖民生态批评角度解读奈保尔的代表作《大河湾》。在广大的刚刚取得民族独立的非洲国家,西方的殖民存在和本国的专制统治正威胁着作为非洲民众的精神和实体家园的非洲丛林。丛林为非洲民众提供了实体的避难所和家园,也在精神上庇佑着非洲民众。西方的殖民存在和非洲的专制统治侵蚀着他们的家园,破坏了丛林的生态,民众丧失了传统,切断了过去和现在的联系,丛林中的神灵也无法为他们的后裔提供精神的庇佑。

This paper interprets Naipaul's A Bend in the River from the perspective of postcolonial ecocriticism. In those newly politically independent African countries, the western colonial existence and the despotism are threatening the African jungles which physically and spiritually accomodate the Africans. Jungles provide the Africans with physical shelter and home,and spiritually protect them. Undermined by the western colonial existence and the despotism,jungles are suffering from ecological damage, loss of traditions and severing of the past and the present so much so that the spirits of the ancestors inhabiting the jungle can no longer bless the offsprings.