阐释与逆写--论《诠释者》中无法想象的共同体

Interpretation and Writing-back:On the Unimaginable Community in The Interpreters

尼日利亚自1960年独立后,腐败滋长、政变频仍、国运多舛,内战的爆发宣示民族共同体的想象归于失败。沃莱.索因卡的《诠释者》带有深刻的民族隐喻,表达了此期尼日利亚知识分子群体遭遇的精神危机与国家社会呈现的分裂意象,成为民族共同体无法想象的预言性书写。本文拟探究尼日利亚后独立时期知识分子与民族建构的关系,审视民族共同体分裂的原因,及其在索因卡文学中的投射, 此外,通过探讨作家在后殖民语境下"逆写"的积极尝试以及学界的批评转向,揭示其创作的杂多面向,证明其建构非洲文学与文化主体性的努力一以贯之。

Nigeria since its independence from British colonial rule has been beset by ineradicable corruption,frequent political turmoils and coups.The outbreak of the civil war that lasted from 1967 through1970 announced the failure of its imagined national community.The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka is informed with considerable national metaphors,which expounds mentally stressful crisis undergone by Nigerian intellectuals in general,and the split images of the nationstate as well.The work has thus become a writing of prophesy.This paper is to explore from the perspective of"imagined community"the relationship between intellectuals and the national building of Nigeria,and to examine relevant reasons for the community suffering separation and its projection in Soyinka’s creative writing;furthermore,through approaching the turn in criticizing Soyinka,it is to deal with the writer’s proactive efforts to"write back"in post-colonial context,so as to reveal the multiple facets of his writings and to demonstrate his consistency in constructing the subjectivity of African literature and culture.