“他者”的矛盾情结——石黑一雄《别让我走》的后殖民意蕴管窥

Ambivalence of “Others”:A Post-Colonial Review ofKazuo Ishiguro’ s Never Let Me Go

日裔英籍诺奖得主石黑一雄发表于2005年的小说《别让我走》在其个人创作史上具有里程碑式的意义,见证了其作品从族裔书写到国际主义的蜕变。小说中克隆人自幼被集体管理,作为遭遇双重“他者化”的边缘型存在,渴望寻求身份认同却又无法抗拒命运的安排。人类如此蓄意构建文化身份的行为难免引起观照省思,倘若个体发展建立在边缘异己族群的基础之上,整个社会将陷入恶性循环,过度的“利己主义”将成为时代主旋律。盲目追求个体发展、牺牲他者终将引发多向度争论,可持续的生存发展方式才能写就历史潮流的本真诉求。

Japanese-born British Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go is a milestone in the history of personal creation,witnessing the transformation of his writing style,from ethnic to international. The clones in the novel have been managed collectively since childhood,and as the marginalized existence of the society,they have been treated in an"other’s"way by the boarding school Hailsham,thus the ambivalence has arisen. Such deliberate construction of cultural identity will inevitably lead to our reflection: if the individual development is actualized based on marginalizing the others,then the whole society falls into a vicious cycle,and excessive"egoism"becomes the main theme of the time. The blind pursuit of individual development and the sacrifice of the other will eventually lead to multi-dimensional disputes. Only the sustainable survival and development mode can signify the true appeal of historical trends.