《非洲的假面剧》中的非洲真相

The Truth in The Masque of Africa by V.S.Naipaul

借用后殖民主义文学理论,尤其是霍米·巴巴的矛盾、杂糅概念,文章对《非洲的假面剧》进行了文本细读,认为奈保尔在该作品中突破了东方主义中西方与第三世界二元对立的叙事模式,书写了一个杂糅的、矛盾的非洲形象,反映出殖民时代结束以后,殖民者与被殖民者相互影响、相互依赖的复杂关系。虽然奈保尔宣称他遵循自己的直觉旨在描写真实的世界,但是作为一个深受西方文化熏陶的英国作家,奈保尔摆脱不了以西方为中心的世界观的影响。奈保尔仍以西方的视角凝视第三世界,殖民思想仍然左右着他笔下的非洲形象。

Based on the postcolonial literary theory,especially Homi Bhaba′s concept of contradiction and hybridization,this paper makes a close reading of The Masque of Africa,and holds that Naipaul broke through the narrative mode of the binary opposition between orientalism and the West and the Third world in this work,and wrote a hybrid and contradictory image of Africa,which reflects that after the end of the colonial era,The complex relationship of mutual influence and interdependence between colonizer and colonized.Although Naipaul claimed that he followed his intuition to describe the real world,as an English writer deeply influenced by Western culture,Naipaul could not get rid of the influence of the Western-centered world view.Naipaul still gazed at the third world from a western perspective,and colonial thoughts still dominated his African images.