朱迪思·赖特的种族主义反思

Judith Wright’s Reflection on Racism

土地是朱迪思·赖特反思种族主义的起点与核心。她在作品中揭示了澳大利亚白人对土著生命、生计和土地权的剥夺。她的家世小说挑战了“无主之地”的神话,控诉了白人拓殖过程中的种族屠戮,补充和修正了官方历史叙事。赖特是较早关注土著劳动力的白人作家,她将目光投射到失地土著在解决温饱和生计过程中遭遇的剥削和歧视。她反对白人环保主义者将所谓的荒野建成国家公园的做法,指出此举是对土著土地权的进一步剥夺,是“无主之地”的另一种形式。赖特正视种族隔阂,主张并践行跨文化对话,为修复澳大利亚种族关系做出了重要贡献,是走在时代前列的民族良知。

Land is both the starting point and core of Judith Wright’s reflection on racism.Her writing exposes Australian whites’dispossession of Aboriginal people’s lives,livelihood and land rights.Her family history,in the form of a semi-novel,challenges the concept of“terra nullius”,reveals the massacres of Aboriginal people in the colonial period,and reinterprets history by highlighting the parts obliterated by the official narrative.Wright is a pioneering white writer who responds to the exploitation and discrimination suffered by dispossessed Aboriginal people.She disapproves of white conservationists turning the“wilderness”into national parks.To her,this is further erasure of Aboriginal land rights,and another insidious form of“terra nullius.”Acknowledging racial estrangement,Wright advocates and practices cross-cultural dialogue,contributing to the improvement of race relations.With a vision ahead of her time,Wright plays the role of the national conscience of Australia.