摘要
非英美国家英语文学源于英国文学,发展中形成了刻画地域生活、书写民族历史和彰显多元文化等特点。作为非英美国家英语文学的重要分支,尼日利亚作家用英语完成了非洲民族精神的书写。本·奥克瑞及其代表作《饥饿的路》是非洲英语文学的代表。该作品通过现实空间、虚幻空间和第三空间的呈现完成了非洲形象的塑造、非洲梦的憧憬和非洲路的构建。在现实空间中,奥克瑞刻画出殖民前原始非洲形象和具有西方殖民烙印的非洲形象,打破白人作家笔下刻板的非洲印象,从而打造出更加丰富多元的非洲形象。在虚幻空间中,作者借幽灵世界、梦境世界和非洲神话完成古老非洲梦的追溯和未来非洲梦的憧憬。在本土文化与西方文化杂糅与碰撞形成的第三空间中,作者以个人出路的探索完成对现实生活中非洲路的探索。
Pan-English literature originated from British literature, but over the years it has formed its own characteristics such as depiction of regional life, writing of national history, and attention to cultural diversity. As an important branch of pan-English literature, Nigerian literature has devotedly represented the African ethos in the English language. Ben Okri＇s The Famished Road is such a masterpiece of African literature in English. The novel completes an image of Africa, discusses the African dream and manages to construct an African road in the material world, imaginary space and thirdspace. In the material world, Okri breaks the stereotypical image of Africa, which white writers created, and realistically depicts Africa before and under colonization. In the magical space, Okri reviews the African dream and its pursuit in the future in the spiritual world, dream world, and African mythology. With a hybridity of African culture and western culture, Okri manages to construct an African road while exploring a personal road in the thirdspace.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2017年第4期60-68,共9页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
朱振武主持的上海市本级科研项目英语文学与翻译学的阶段性研究成果
