论基兰·德赛《继承失落的人》中的“对开式”群像

On the Image of“Antithetical Group”in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss

基兰·德赛的《继承失落的人》是2006年度"布克奖"的获奖作品,其以20世纪80年代的印度边陲为背景,对印度独立后社会民众的生存状况进行了叙事。围绕噶伦堡和剑桥、纽约这两类迥异的城市空间,小说聚焦于殖民边缘与帝国中心的互动,塑造出一系列囿于身份模糊、文明冲突的"对开式"人物群像。通过对这些人物之间想象性关系的刻画以及人物命运失落走向的展露,基兰·德赛揭示出全球化语境下印度社会在日常生活、文化心理等方面受到的根深蒂固的殖民霸权影响。

Kiran Desai was the winner of the Booker prize in 2006.Her prize-winning works The Inheritance of Loss tells the story of the survival of the people of post-independence India in the 1980s.The novel focuses on the interaction between the colonial edge and the imperial center around the two distinct urban Spaces of Kalimpong,Cambridge and New York,creating a series of“antithesis”character groups limited by ambiguous identities and cultural conflicts.Through the depiction of the imaginary relations between these characters and the exposure of the characters'lost destiny,Kiran Desai reveals the deep-rooted colonial hegemony in the daily life,cultural psychology and other aspects of Indian society in the context of globalization.