殖民历史改写、性别身份重构与女性共同体建构:论《靛蓝色》对《暴风雨》的重写

Rewriting of Colonial History,Reconstruction of Gender Identity and Construction of Female Community:on the Rewriting of The Tempest by Indigo or Mapping the Waters

莫瑞娜·沃娜的《靛蓝色》是对莎士比亚戏剧《暴风雨》的重写,重写了家族殖民历史和莎翁经典文本所含的反殖民主义思想。该文本颠覆性地重写了莎翁笔下的西考拉克斯、米拉达以及凯列班等人物形象,不仅让处于叙事边缘的人物进入中心,而且重构了人物性别身份。探讨殖民者爱恨交织的矛盾心理、检视杂交身份下带来的暴力与精神分裂,有助于进一步理解作者建立以爱和包容为基础的女性共同体的诉求。《靛蓝色》不仅显示了作者挑战西方经典的勇气,而且彰显了女作家跨越种族与性别构建共同体的伦理关怀。

Morena Wona’s Indigo(also named Mapping the Waters)is a rewrite of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest,rewriting the history of family colonization and the anti-colonial ideas contained in Shakespeare’s classic texts.The text subversively rewrote the characters of Shakespeare,Mirada,and Keleban in Shakespeare’s novels,not only letting the characters on the fringe of the narrative enter the center,but also reconstructing their gender identity.Exploring the ambivalence of love and hatred of the colonists and examining the violence and schizophrenia brought about by hybrid identities will help to further understand the author’s desire to establish a female community based on love and tolerance.Indigo not only shows the author’s courage to challenge Western classics,but also demonstrates the ethical care of female writers to build a community across race and gender.