揭开殖民面具,唤醒身份意识
2016-11-07张璇孙妮
张璇 孙妮
摘 要:乔治·拉明的代表作《在我皮肤的城堡里》是一部自传体长篇小说,它以20世纪三四十年代加勒比动荡不安的社会为背景,通过对主人公G所在的克莱顿村的学校教育和村民生活的描写,揭示了无处不在的殖民统治和文化霸权影响。小说结尾通过描写从美国回来的特拉姆普尔让G认识到了种族身份问题并最终踏上离乡之路,展现了作家力图通过自我流放,找寻自我身份,唤醒民族身份意识。从后殖民批评视角,探讨《在我皮肤的城堡里》的反殖民和身份意识觉醒主题。
关键词:乔治·拉明;《在我皮肤的城堡里》;反殖民;身份意识觉醒
中图分类号:I106.4
文献标识码:A 文章编号:1672-1101(2016)03-0067-05
Abstract: In the Castle of My Skin is a representative autobiographical novel of George Lamming, and it takes Caribbeans turbulent society in the 1930s and 1940s as its setting. By depicting the school education and village life of Creighton where the protagonist G lives, Lamming reveals the ubiquitous colonial activities and cultural hegemony. At the end of the novel, the description of Trumper, after his return from America, making G know the racial identity, and G leaving his own country show that the writer strives to explore self-identity and to awaken the consciousness of national identity by self-imposed exile. This paper studies the themes of anti-colonization and the awakening of identity consciousness from the perspective of post-colonial criticism.
Key words:George Lamming; In the Castle of My Skin;anti-colonization; the awakening of identity consciousness
随着后殖民理论研究的快速发展,原英属殖民地加勒比海地区的英语文学作家备受国外学界的关注。乔治·拉明(George Lamming)(1927-)作为加勒比英语文学之父之一,是巴巴多斯杰出的黑人小说家、诗人和文学评论家,后殖民文学的代表作家之一。后殖民文学,“并不是仅仅指帝国‘之后才到来的文学,而是指对于殖民关系作批判性的考察的文学。它是以这样或那样的方式抵制殖民主义视角的文字。”[1]3《后殖民文学的语言》(The Language of Postcolonial Literatures)一书指出:后殖民文学可以被定义为殖民地和前殖民地人民所写的文学 [2]17。1946年拉明赴特立尼达的威尼左拉学院任教五年,1950年移民英国。在英国期间,拉明定期参加西非学生会,讨论许多共有的殖民困境和斗争问题,这对其写作产生重要影响。拉明自己在访谈中也这样承认:“我第一次遇见非洲人是在伦敦,我认为那儿有很多影响。……
