吴宝星的《假如我们梦太久》的后殖民解读

发布时间：2018-08-11 14:02

【摘要】：新加坡英语文学是后殖民文学的一个主要分支。作为新加坡英语文学中最重要的作品之一,《假如我们梦太久》被认为是新加坡第一部用英文创作的严肃小说。小说的作者吴宝星是新加坡的文学先锋,著名的诗人,剧作家。小说的背景设在二十世纪六十年代的新加坡,讲述了一个受过西方教育的华裔青年光萌在现实与理想之间不断挣扎的故事。综观国内外研究,后殖民文学研究主要集中在非洲文学,美国少数族裔文学,加拿大文学,和西印度文学等,对新加坡英语文学的研究甚少。因此,研究新加坡英语文学在研究选题上具有一定的新意。后殖民理论被广泛地用于评析后殖民文学。在萨义德的《东方主义》中,他借用了葛兰西的文化霸权,阐述了宗主国是如何通过文化霸权来对殖民地进行统治,并揭示了殖民者与被殖民者之间的中心和边缘的权利关系。萨达尔的东方化的东方人概念意指那些思想已经完全西化的东方人,是西方文化霸权的产物。霍米·巴巴提出要打破殖民者与被殖民者的这种权利关系结构框架,建立一个“混杂的”的身份,以此来消除殖民主义和文化霸权。而在消除这种文化霸权构建一个民族国家的过程中,本尼迪克特·安德森提出一个国家就是一个想象的共同体。新加坡英语文学具有明显的后殖民特征,因此,运用后殖民理论来分析新加坡英语文学是合理可行的。本文试图从后殖民的角度解读新加坡作家吴宝星的《假如我们梦太久》这部小说,目的是要帮助读者更好地理解新加坡作家吴宝星的人文主义思想和这部作品的内涵。本文试图通过分析小说作家吴宝星如何在文中表达自己的人文关怀来评析小说的价值。通过文本细读的方式,本文试图揭示独立后新加坡仍受到西方文化霸权主义的影响,以及在西方霸权中,新加坡人的文化认同焦虑。文章共有五章：第一章主要对吴宝星和《假如我们梦太久》进行介绍,综述国内外对该作品的研究情况,对相关后殖民理论进行梳理,阐述本论文的研究意义、方法和结构。第二章主要对小说中体现西方文化主导地位的文本进行分析。第三章主要对小说中体现东方文化他者化的文本进行分析。第四章分析了作家如何通过民族叙事在文本中构建新加坡的这个“想象的共同体”。第五章阐述新加坡人的身份认同危机,以及主人公的文化认同焦虑和选择。第六章是对论文的研究成果进行总结。
[Abstract]:Singapore English literature is a major branch of post-colonial literature. As one of the most important works in Singaporean English literature, "if we dream too long" is considered to be Singapore's first serious novel written in English. The author of the novel, Wu Baoxing, is a literary pioneer in Singapore, a famous poet and playwright. Set in Singapore in the 1960s, the novel tells the story of a western-educated young man of Chinese descent struggling between reality and ideal. Looking at the studies at home and abroad, postcolonial literature studies mainly focus on African literature, American minority literature, Canadian literature, and West Indian literature, etc. Therefore, the study of Singaporean English literature has some new ideas in the study of topics. Post-colonial theory is widely used to analyze post-colonial literature. In said's Orientalism, he borrows Gramsci's cultural hegemony, expounds how the Suzerain rules the colonies through cultural hegemony, and reveals the central and marginal power relationship between the colonists and the colonized. Sardar's oriental concept of Orientalism refers to those oriental whose thoughts have been completely westernized, which are the product of western cultural hegemony. Homi Baba proposed to break the framework of the right relationship between colonists and colonized people and to establish a "mixed" identity to eliminate colonialism and cultural hegemony. In the process of eliminating the cultural hegemony and constructing a nation-state, Benedict Anderson proposed that a country is an imaginary community. Singapore English literature has obvious postcolonial characteristics, so it is reasonable and feasible to analyze Singapore English literature with postcolonial theory. This paper attempts to interpret Singapore writer Wu Baoxing's novel "if our Dream too long" from a post-colonial perspective, in order to help readers better understand the humanism of Singaporean writer Wu Baoxing and the connotation of this work. This paper attempts to evaluate the value of the novel by analyzing how Wu Baoxing expresses his humanistic concern. By reading the text carefully, this paper attempts to reveal that Singapore was still influenced by western cultural hegemonism after independence, and that Singaporeans' cultural identity was anxious in the process of Western hegemony. There are five chapters: the first chapter mainly introduces Wu Baoxing and if our Dream too long, summarizes the domestic and foreign research on this work, combs the relevant postcolonial theory, and expounds the significance, method and structure of this thesis. The second chapter mainly analyzes the text which embodies the dominant position of western culture in the novel. The third chapter mainly analyzes the texts of oriental culture. Chapter four analyzes how the writer constructs the "imaginary community" of Singapore through national narration. The fifth chapter describes the Singaporean identity crisis, as well as the protagonist's cultural identity anxiety and choice. The sixth chapter is a summary of the research results.
【学位授予单位】：广西大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2014
【分类号】：I339.074

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