“摩西十诫”与“掉牙”的焦虑——《孤独的伦敦人》与《白牙》中英国有色移民的种族危机

Ten Commandments and the Anxiety of Losing Teeth:British Colored Immigrants' Racial Crisis in The Lonely Londoners and White Teeth

就出版时间而言,萨姆·塞尔文的小说《孤独的伦敦人》和扎迪·史密斯的小说《白牙》虽相隔近半个世纪,两部小说却因对英国有色移民种族危机的诠释而展现出主题上的一致性。本文认为,以"摩西十诫"和"掉牙"的焦虑为隐喻,塞尔文和史密斯为读者阐释了英国20世纪40、50年代有色移民的生存与道德危机和20世纪80、90年代有色移民种族文化与历史存续危机的社会经济与种族政治成因。

Sam Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners and Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth are half a century apart in terms of date of publication.Despite spatio-temporal distance,two novels have demonstrated their homogeneous thematic concern on colored immigrants’racial crisis in Britain.The paper argues that metaphorically referring to the basic ideas of Ten Commandments and the anxiety of losing teeth,Sam Selvon and Zadie Smith have demonstrated social economic and racial political reasons for British colored immigrants’survival and moral crisis in1940 s and 50 s and the crisis of their racial culture and history in 1980 s and 90 s.