安娜玛丽·雅戈斯《缓流》中的性别政治与后殖民书写

Gender Politics and Post-colonial Writing in Annamarie Jagose's Slow Water

安娜玛丽·雅戈斯的小说《缓流》是以英帝国在新西兰的殖民历史为依托创作的新维多利亚小说。雅戈斯从当代人的立场出发对维多利亚时期的一段隐秘历史进行重现和重构,以后殖民书写的方式呈现了英帝国借助性别政治让男女两性共同参与殖民事业的历史。更重要的是,小说揭示了为“超男性气质”所定义的帝国殖民文化对殖民时期人们精神世界的影响与重塑,以及对殖民者和被殖民者造成的不可治愈的心理创伤。

Annamarie Jagose's novel Slow Water is a neo-Victorian novel based on the colonial history of the British Empire in New Zealand.As a modern novelist,Jagose presents and reconstructs an eclipsed historical event which happened in Victorian age,revealing how the British Empire applied gender politics to bring men and women together in the colonial endeavors.More importantly,the novel reveals how imperial colonial culture defined by"hyper-masculinity,"influenced and reshaped the inner world of the people during colonial period,inflicting incurable psychological trauma on both the colonizer and the colonized.