古尔纳《多蒂》中的伦理身份重构与共同体想象

Ethical Identity Reconstruction and Community Imagination in Gurnah’s Dottie

作为当代流散文学的代表人物,古尔纳在小说创作中重点关注流散群体的伦理身份重构议题。他的早期小说《多蒂》以多蒂姐弟三人在多元文化语境中的伦理身份错位与伦理困境为主线,揭示了流散者对主体地位的渴望和少数族裔群体共同的伦理身份诉求。同时,古尔纳通过考察英国战后严重的保守排外和种族歧视思想对流散群体造成的心理创伤与伦理困境,探讨了黑人女性在历史记忆与社会现实的双重挤压下进行伦理选择的心路历程,并对多元文化语境下的伦理共同体进行了想象和追寻。

As a representative figure of contemporary diasporic literature,Gurnah has been focusing on the issue of ethical identity reconstruction among diasporic groups in his fiction writing.Taking Dottie’s and her two siblings’displacement of ethical identity and ethical dilemma in a multicultural context as the main thread,Gurnah’s early novel,Dottie,reveals the diaspora’s yearning for subject status and minority groups’common pursuit of ethical identity.At the same time,by examining diasporic groups’psychological trauma and ethical dilemma due to the severe conservative xenophobia and racial discrimination in Postwar Britain,Gurnah not only explores black women’s heart-wrenching experience of making ethical choices under the double pressure from historical memories and social realities,but also illustrates their imagination of and search for an ethical community in a multicultural context.