对《喧哗与骚动》中迪尔西身份的后殖民解读

An interpretation of the identity of Dilsey from the perspective of the post-colonialism

保姆是美国旧南方"神话"中常见的主题,是一个被种族中心主义边缘化的"他者"。《喧哗与骚动》中的黑人保姆迪尔西在一定程度上沿袭了这一传统,却又有所不同。她的不同之处在于小说结尾时自我意识的觉醒,但她的觉醒相比之下又是被动的、不完全的。这在一定程度上反映了福克纳在种族问题上的矛盾性。本文运用后殖民主义理论,结合福克纳时代美国南方社会、政治、历史及种族状况,分析小说主要人物对迪尔西"他者"身份的认识、迪尔西的自我身份认证以及觉醒,揭示作者的双重种族意识。

Mammy, as a common subject in the 'myth' of the Old South, is the 'other' marginalized by ethnocentrism. Dilsey, the mammy in The Sound and the Fury, followed this tradition to some extent with a bit difference. The difference lies in the awakening of her self-awareness at the end of the novel. But the awakening is comparatively passive and incomplete, which in some sense reflects Faulkner's contradiction on the racial issues. Based on the post-colonialism, with reference of the society, politics, history and racial status of the South of America in the age of Faulkner, this paper intends to analyze Dilsey's 'other' identity, self-identity constructing and awakening, from which the author's dual-racial consciousness may be revealed.