在地全球性:古尔纳《最后的礼物》中的文学绘图与身份政治

Glocality:Literary Cartography and Identity Politics in Gurnah's The Last Gift

坦桑尼亚小说家古尔纳在《最后的礼物》中借由绘图探讨流散群体的身份问题。通过将空间关系带入叙事,古尔纳绘制了桑给巴尔岛的地方性地图和印度洋沿岸行程地图,并将二者叠加重构,完成了对个体与全球空间关系的认知测绘,提出了兼具地方精神和世界视野的“在地全球”身份理想。经由绘图,古尔纳不仅重构了流散群体的方位感与归属感,更通过地图的呼应与同构实现了地方意识与世界精神的整合,彰显了“在地全球”身份的创新与超越。

In The Last Gift,Tanzanian novelist,Abdulrazak Gurnah,explores the issue of diasporic identity through literary cartography.By bringing the spatial relation into the narrative,Gurnah draws up the local map of Zanzibar Island and the itinerary map along the Indian Ocean Coast.Moreover,he overlaps and reconstructs both maps to complete a cognitive mapping on the spatial relation between the individual and the globe and,thereby,propose an ideal identity of“glocality”with both local spirit and global vision.By taking advantage of cartography,Gurnah not only reestablishes the sense of place and belonging of the diasporic communities,but also integrates local awareness with global spirit through the correspondence and isomorphism between maps,thus innovating and transcending the essence of the“glocal”identity.