《让家火燃烧》对《安提戈涅》的再语境化改写

Recontextualized Rewriting of Antigone in Home Fire

当代英国作家卡米拉·沙姆希以古希腊经典悲剧《安提戈涅》为素材创作了小说《让家火燃烧》,赋予边缘群体挑战绝对权威以新的内涵。她将安提戈涅与克瑞翁的冲突嵌于全新语境,书写“全球反恐”时代英国穆斯林的生存困境及面临的公民身份危机;将原剧中的背景人物推至前景,探究西方穆斯林家庭陷入恐怖主义怪圈的深层原因,揭示西方反恐策略的极端主义本质;以“回不回国”的争执替代原剧中“埋不埋”的矛盾,昭示公民权作为特权而存在的事实,大胆评判英国法律范畴的歧视。沙姆希对安提戈涅传统的厚重反思与巧妙利用,彰显出古希腊悲剧的现代内涵,体现了当代作家的时代责任和价值担当。

Contemporary British writer Kamila Shamsie rewrites Antigone in her novel Home Fire,which gives new meaning to how marginal groups should challenge absolute authority.Recontextualizing the conflict between Antigone and Creon in Britain,Shamsie depicts the plight of British Muslims and their citizenship crisis in the era of“global counter-terrorism.”Foregrounding the minor characters in Antigone,Shamsie explores the deep reasons why Western Muslim families fall into the terrorist circle,and reveals the extremist essence of Western counter-terrorism strategies.Replacing the contradiction of“burying or not”in the original play with the argument of“returning home or not,”Shamsie exposes citizenship as a privilege and criticizes legal discrimination in Britain.Shamsie’s ingenious appropriation of Antigone demonstrates the modern connotation of classical Greek tragedies and contemporary writers’responsibility.