《剑桥》中的不可靠叙述者（英文）

The Unreliable Narrator in Cambridge

当代英国黑人小说家卡里尔·菲利普斯的小说《剑桥》揭示了1807年《奴隶贸易法》颁布后西印度群岛黑奴悲惨的生存状态。小说的女主人公艾米丽通过日记的形式记录下自己在西印度的见闻并希望借助自己的记录推动英国废奴运动的发展。艾米丽的日记看似公平公正,实则充满白人对黑人奴隶的偏见。文章将从叙事学的角度分析艾米丽日记的不可靠性并进而分析作者选择这一叙述模式的原因。

The novel Cambridge written by Caryl Phillips,the contemporary British black novelist,reveals the survival status of black slaves in the West Indies after enactment of Slave Trade Act of 1807.Emily,the heroine of this novel,recorded her own experience in the West Indies in the form of diary and hoped to promote domestic black liberation movement with her diary.Emily’s diary seems fair and impartial,but it is full of whites’prejudice against black slaves actually.The unreliability of Emily’s diary will be analyzed from the perspective of narratology and the causes behind Caryl Phillips’choice of unreliable narrative will be further explored.