本·奥克瑞“阿比库三部曲”中的空间叙事

The Spatial Narrative in Ben Okri’s"Abiku Trilogy"

尼日利亚作家本·奥克瑞的代表作品"阿比库三部曲",打破了时间的线性构架以及叙事的因果逻辑,展现出尼日利亚的多层空间面貌。小说通过弱化时间叙事、空间转换、空间并置与杂糅呈现表现出空间化的叙事策略。这既是受非洲口述故事传统以及非洲传统观念影响的结果,也是为了展现不同于西方现代性传统且在当今世界仍处于边缘地位的非洲文化传统,赋予非洲空间新的价值。西方现代主义传统注重理性、科学、人对自然的征服等观念,人与自然构成主客对立的关系,而非洲传统则倡导人与自然万物和谐统一的关系,重视信仰的力量、现实的多维性以及万物的关联性。

The"Abiku Trilogy",written by Nigerian novelist Ben Okri,portrays the multi-layered spatial features of Nigerian society by breaking the linear time framework and the causal logic of narrative.This disruption of the time narrative and the transformation,juxtaposition and hybridisation of spaces represent strategies for the spatialisation of the narrative.These strategies are affected by both African oral storytelling traditions and traditional modes of thinking.The writing aims to show how African cultural traditions differ from those of Western modernity and how these traditions are marginalised in the present world.The approach used serves to bestow new values on African spaces.Western modernity emphasises rationality,science and humanity’s conquest of nature.In this context,human society and nature constitute a binary opposition between subject and object.In contrast,African traditions advocate harmonious coexistence between human and nature.Okri’s narrative stresses the power of faith,the multiple dimensions of reality and the relatedness of different beings.