非自然历史中的“自然资源保护者”——纳丁·戈迪默的文学本土化构建

“The Conservationist” in Unnatural History:The Indigenization of Nadine Gordimer’s Creative Writing

1991年诺贝尔文学奖获得者纳丁·戈迪默是南非的国宝级作家。她虽为白人,却有着鲜明的“非洲中心意识”,始终深扎南非进行文学创作。在其70年的文学创作生涯中,戈迪默一直都致力于构建出富有主体性、民族性和革命性的本土化艺术表达。戈迪默的本土化文学书写,不论是早期的民族主体意识构建,中期的激进主义叙事策略,还是后期的家国理念重塑,都生动呈现了南非人民的百味人生和南非历史的百年变迁,启迪着南非人民挣脱非自然历史的奴役和异化,成长为具有主体意识和民族意识的公民,成为保存南非民族历史记忆、捍卫非洲文化传统和守护非洲人文主义价值观的“自然资源保护者”。

Nadine Gordimer,the winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for literature,is a national treasure in South Africa.Although she is white,she has a distinctive sense of “African-centered consciousness,” which is the root of her South African literary creation.Gordimer’s 70 years of literary creation have been committed to building an indigenized artistic expression which is full of subjectivity,nationality and revolution.Her indigenized creative writing,which consists of the construction of national consciousness in her early phase,the radical narrative strategies in her middle phase,and the reconstruction of the concept of home and country in the later phase,vividly presents the life of the South African people and the changes of South African history over the past century,enlightening South African people to break away from the slavery and alienation of unnatural history and grow into citizens with subject consciousness and national consciousness.Thus,Gordimer’s works culminate in “The Conservationist” which preserves the historical memory of South Africa,defends African cultural traditions and protects African humanistic values.