《文心雕龙》差异性的异域重构——以宇文所安英译本为例

Foreign-Land Reconstruction of Differences in Readings in Chinese Literary Thought by Stephen Owen

他者是与主体相对的概念,相较主体而言,他者的显著标志就是差异性。宇文所安对《文心雕龙》的选择与翻译,既是译者个人眼光和社会群体共同想象相互作用的产物,又是一个独具创造力的学者对中国文化的尊重与期待。宇文所安破除西方对强制统一性的执迷,用自己独特的方法阐释《文心雕龙》的价值,并对其差异性进行了富有想象力的重构。他的解构是双向解构,体现了异域汉学家改变西方传统思维、繁荣文化多样性的努力;他的重构是凸显差异性和译者主体性的重构。解构与重构是互补的,解构的目的是重构。解构是为了克制暴力的强制统一性,重构是为了凸显文化的差异性。他者的差异性通过译者的主体性得以重新定义,而中国文论也因被重构的差异性而真正畅游世界。

The other is a concept relative to the subject,and its remarkable sign is the difference.Stephen Owen’s selection and translation of Readings in Chinese Literary Thought is not only the result of interaction between the translator’s personal vision and the common imagination of social groups,but also a creative scholar’s manifestation of respect and expectation for Chinese culture.He breaks away from the Western obsession with compulsory unity,explains the value of Readings in Chinese Literary Thought in his own unique way,and reconstructs its differences imaginatively.His deconstruction is a two-way one,reflecting the efforts of a foreign Sinologist to change traditional Western thinking and prosper cultural diversity;his reconstruction is one that highlights differences and the translator’s subjectivity.His deconstruction and reconstruction are complementary,and the purpose of deconstruction is construction.Deconstruction is to restrain the coercive unity of violence,and reconstruction is to highlight cultural differences.The otherness is redefined by the translator’s subjectivity,and the Chinese literary theory is truly free to travel the world because of the reconstructed differences.