戈迪默《陌生人的世界》中的种族空间政治

Spatial Politics of Race in A World of Strangers

戈迪默在小说《陌生人的世界》中,聚焦英联邦自治领南非实行种族隔离制度后多元种族主义反抗运动的失败。英国人托比·胡德的第一人称叙述,铺陈了白人城市与黑人城镇的种族化空间,其陌生感表征为客居、疏离和荒凉。抵达约翰内斯堡的航路与城乡空间漫游,勾连起“英布战争”之后英国殖民者的后帝国忧郁与危机意识;索菲亚镇黑人文艺复兴的艺术空间协商,耦合黑人意识觉醒前的惺忪状态与自由白人肤色色盲意识的不切实际;不同种族接触的“无人地带”,象征政治空间中多元种族主义消极抵抗的无效,反映出隐含作者的种族政治焦虑。

Nadine Gordimer focused on the failure of multi-racialist movement against Apartheid in the British Commonwealth Dominion of South Africa.The Englishman Toby Hood's first person narrative elaborates the racialized space of white city and black township,and his strangeness is manifested as foreignness,alienation and desolation.The sea route to Johannesburg and the roaming wherein,arouse the British colonist's postempire melancholia and crisis consciousness after the Anglo-Boer War.The negotiation of art space in Sophia Township's Black Renaissance,couples with the half-awake of black consciousness and the impracticality of liberal whites'color blindness.No man's land,the contact zone of different races,politically symbolizes the futility of passive resistance of multi-racialism,revealing the implied author's anxiety about the politics of race.