后结构主义与族裔文学研究:保罗•帕顿教授访谈录

Post-structuralism and Ethnic Literature Studies:An Interview with Prof.Paul Patton

保罗•帕顿教授现为武汉大学哲学学院弘毅讲席教授,澳大利亚人文科学院院士,德里达、德勒兹及后结构主义研究国际知名学者。近年来,帕顿教授将后结构主义应用到库切、石黑一雄等族裔作家的文学作品解读中,其精彩的哲学解读为族裔文学研究提供了新的灵感。在访谈中,帕顿教授首先分享了他在中国教学和做研究的经历及感受,接着对后结构主义理论的兴起、后结构主义的局限性及解构主义在中国的接受进行了评价。之后帕顿教授指出德勒兹哲学与族裔文学研究结合可能的切入点,并从德里达“将临性”的视角对小说《极端希望》做了精彩的后结构主义解读,最后结合具体的文学文本阐述了自己关于族裔文学“丧失”特点的见解。

Paul Patton is the Hongyi Chair Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University,a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities,and an expert with an international reputation in the studies of Derrida,Deleuze,and post-structuralism.In recent years,Professor Patton has applied post-structuralism to the study of ethnic literature by writers such as J.M.Coetzee and Kazuo Ishiguro,providing new inspiration for the interpretation of ethnic literature.In this interview,he shares with readers his teaching and research experiences in China,his encounter with poststructuralist theories,and his thought on the limitations of post-structuralism as well as the reception of deconstructionism in China.Meanwhile,he presents possible perspectives of Deleuzian philosophy on the study of ethnic literature and shows examples of how to study Radical Hope from the perspective of Derrida’s“à-venir”.Finally,Professor Patton elaborates on his understanding of the theme of“loss”in ethnic literature.