《福》中的“事件”--星期五的舌头之谜

“Event” in Foe--Mystery of Friday’s Tongue

作为对《鲁滨逊漂流记》经典重写的文本,《福》与前者的互文关系是不言而喻的。与前者不同,星期五的沉默成了该文本的叙事中心,而"谁割了星期五的舌头"这一齐泽克意义上的"事件",消解了欧洲白人凭借现实主义小说所建构的殖民神话。来自实在界的他者身体以拒绝符号化的姿态显示了种族主义者虚假的幻象,也具化了白人殖民神话象征秩序的不自洽,与此同时,它也对南非白人作家的写作提出了挑战。

As a classic re-writing version of Robinson Crusoe,the intertextual relationship between Foe and the former is self-evident.Unlike the former,the silence of Friday became the narrative center of the text,and the"event"in the sense of Zizek that"who cut the tongue of Friday"dispels the colonial mythology constructed by European whites with realist novels.The body of the other from the Real shows the illusion of racist falsehood in the gesture of refusal to symbolize,and also embodies the inconsistency of the symbolic order of the white colonial mythology.At the same time,it also challenges the writing of white writers in South Africa.