种族·殖民·动物伦理:论《等待野蛮人》中的狩猎

Racism·Colonialism·Animal Ethics:On Hunting in J.M.Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

库切的扛鼎之作《等待野蛮人》聚焦酷刑及其背后的政治文化内涵。而作为其情节结构的一个重要成分,狩猎虽具有多元复杂的意义,但一直以来并未得到批评家们的足够重视。狩猎与酷刑并非两个互不相干的文本成分,而是展示了物种主义与种族主义的共谋关系;狩猎与针对“野蛮人”的战争同是帝国进行殖民扩张的重要手段;狩猎同时体现了作者提倡的以道德和同情为内核的动物伦理观。对狩猎情节的深入探讨,有助于我们更深刻地理解作品的丰富内涵以及作家的深度人文关怀。

As an important plot of Waiting for the Barbarians,which focuses on torture and its underlying political and cultural connotations,hunting has multiple and complicated meanings.However,it has not been paid enough attention by critics.Hunting and torture are not two unrelated text components,but together show the collusive relationship between speciesism and racism.Hunting and the war against the "barbarians" are both important means for the empire to colonize.Hunting,at the same time,reflects the author’s animal ethics with morality and compassion as its core.An in-depth discussion of the hunting plot will help us to have a deeper understanding of the rich connotation of the work and the author’s deep humanistic care.