殖民语境下的逃离和坚守——诺奖作家古尔纳的近作《今世来生》探析

Runaway and Adherence in the Colonial Context:An Analysis of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives

2021年诺贝尔文学奖得主坦桑尼亚作家古尔纳的最新作品《今世来生》密切关注非洲难民移民问题,通过主人公的两种不同人生,揭示殖民语境下逃离或坚守的身份困境与重构真相。小说挖掘被集体记忆遗忘的历史,将个体叙述融汇于宏大叙事中,对殖民与后殖民时代非洲流散群体的心理动势和社会认同等诸多问题有深刻的揭示和思考。

The latest novel Afterlives by the Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah who won the Nobel laureates in Literature in 2021,continues to pay attention to the problem of African refugees and immigrants.Through the two different lives of the protagonists,it reveals the identity dilemma and reconstruction in runaway and adherence.The novel excavates the collective forgotten history and integrates individual narrative into grand narrative,and deeply reveals and reflects many issues such as the psychological dynamics and social identity of African diasporas in colonial and post-colonial era.