从残疾研究视角看石黑一雄《莫失莫忘》的人文关怀

Reading Humanism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go from the Perspective of Disability Studies

石黑一雄的小说主题多样,不仅仅局限于移民题材,且深蕴社会责任,体现出一种普世的人文主义关怀,《莫失莫忘》便是典型之一。这部科幻作品融合文学自然主义和魔幻现实主义,具有反乌托邦色彩。小说同时也是一首书写重要道德和哲学问题的挽歌。本文从残疾研究的视角考察小说中克隆人和正常人的生活际遇,审视包容性和优生世界建构的问题,最终揭示作家对后现代人类生存境况的思考及对社会弱势群体的人文主义关怀。

Ishiguro Kazuo’s novels have various themes and never limit themselves to immigrant issues.His work carries a profound sense of social responsibility and demonstrates universal humanistic concern.His dystopian science-fiction novel Never Let Me Go, for example, blends literary naturalism and magical realism to make an elegy that poses significant moral and philosophical questions.This essay uses disability theory to dig into such issues as inclusiveness and eugenic world building by analyzing the disability of cloned people and common human beings.It unmasks the writer’s thoughts on the living conditions of post-modern humans and his humanistic concern for the socially disadvantaged.