摘要
吉尔罗伊的《黑色大西洋》虽然主张从跨民族视角考察黑人文学文化研究,但仍然表现出对美国和欧洲的偏向,忽略了加勒比等黑人文化跨大西洋交流的重要区域。加拿大加勒比移民作家奥斯汀·克拉克的《锃亮的锄头》是从加勒比视角审视“黑色大西洋”观念的重要作品。该作通过突出加勒比奴隶制历史的当下延续、加勒比在跨大西洋奴隶贸易中的关键位置,以及借助新奴隶叙事构建的加勒比中心视角,从奴隶制历史记忆和黑人他者身份反思等方面凸显“黑色大西洋”的加勒比维度。同时,作为一部加拿大文学作品,《锃亮的锄头》的种族题材也间接批判了加拿大的种族主义,表现出丰富的理论内涵和现实意义。
Despite its emphasis on the concept of “diaspora” and a transnational interpretation of Black literary and cultural productions,Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic is often questioned for the neglect of the Caribbean,which is crucial to the trans-Atlantic exchange of Black culture. The Caribbean-Canadian novelist Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe is a major work that examines the notion of “the Black Atlantic” from the Caribbean perspective. It underscores the historical memory of slavery and the critical thinking of the racial discourse that marginalizes the Black in the same way The Black Atlantic does,but adds the Caribbean dimension by highlighting the continuation of slavery in Caribbean and the prominent position of Caribbean in the trans-Atlantic slavery trade, and by formulating a Caribbean-centered perspective through neo-slave narrative. Meanwhile,as a Canadian novel,The Polished Hoe’s subject-matter is an oblique critique of the Canadian racism,disclosing both theoretical and social significance.
出处
《解放军外国语学院学报》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第3期38-45,160,共9页
Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages
基金
国家社会科学基金项目“加拿大黑人英语小说研究”(16BWW081)。
作者简介
綦亮(1980-),男,山东高密人,副教授,博士,研究方向为英语文学和西方文论,E-mail:petery23@163.com。
