在记忆中“对话”法农和恩古吉——论丹格仁布格的“坦布三部曲”

Reading Dangarembga's"Tambu Trilogy"

津巴布韦著名女作家齐齐·丹格仁布格的“坦布三部曲”是深度批判非洲父权社会与西方殖民主义的佳作。该三部曲是丹格仁布格对津巴布韦公共历史记忆、法农被殖民精神病理书写以及恩古吉有关殖民教育论述中存在的性别盲点的互文性批评。作家在文本叙事中以其敏锐的后殖民女性意识重塑了民族解放战争书写中被忽视甚至被污名化的女性形象,彰显了被殖民女性在殖民政治和父权文化双重压迫下的“不安状态”,并以辩证的历史眼光揭示了殖民教育对被殖民女性的双重影响,认识到殖民教育虽然严重束缚了被殖民女性,但她们未必是西方殖民教育的被动容器,她们也可以从中获取某种解放的力量。

Tsitsi Dangarembga,one of the greatest women novelists in Zimbabwe,is best-known for her"Tambu Trilogy,"which skilfully embodies her sharp criticism of African patriarchal society and Western colonialism.The trilogy renders Dangarembga's intertextual criticism of the sexual blind spots in Zimbabwean public historical memory,Fanon's psychopathologyical writing on the colonized,and Ngugi's assessment of the psychological impact of colonial education on the colonized.Equiped with the author's keen postcolonial-feminist consciousness,the triology not only remolds the women's images ignored and even stigmatized in the historical writings on"Chimurengu,"but highlights the"nervous conditions"suffered by the colonized women under the double oppressions imposed by colonial politics and patriarchal culture.Furthermore,furnished with the author's dialectical historical perception,the triology also unfolds the negative and affirmative effects of colonial education on the colonized females,who are likely to be trapped by colonial education but are never passive receivers,for they can be nourished by it and obtain certain power of liberation from it.