自我身份的追寻：《半生》与《魔种》中的婚姻与政治

发布时间：2018-05-28 13:15

本文选题：奈保尔 + 《半生》　；参考：《华中师范大学》2017年硕士论文

【摘要】：奈保尔是21世纪最重要的作家之一,以冷酷深刻的笔触著称。他对第三世界的态度极为尖锐,但这并不影响他成为评论家们公认的颇具才华的作家。奈保尔具有印度、特立尼达和英国的多重文化身份,这使他能够对文化、种族和历史问题有独到的见解。无根感和自我身份危机在他的后期作品中都有所表现。在《半生》和《魔种》中,奈保尔深刻探讨了身份危机问题,记录了追寻自我身份的旅程。两部小说主人公威利在每一个地方的逃离和停留都是对自我的重新认知。自我认知的改变促使威利不断追寻自我身份,而这一旅程没有终点。小说中包括威利在内的人物都面临着孤独与焦虑,时刻处于寻找自我身份的旅程中。本论文着眼于两部小说的婚姻和政治书写,旨在揭示人物在印度、非洲和英国的循环旅程中对自我身份的追寻。本文作者认为,两部小说中的婚姻和政治既是导致小说人物自我身份危机的原因,也是他们塑造自我身份的方式。自我身份问题是现代文学作品的重要议题。个人的自我身份并非与生俱来,而是杂糅了文化与种族的产物,而空间与时间的变化也使自我身份具有更加丰富的内涵。本文将运用斯图亚特·霍尔、安东尼·吉登斯以及其他学者的相关理论,探讨奈保尔这两部作品主人公自我身份危机的产生,以及他们通过婚姻和政治途径寻求自我身份之路。本论文包括五章。第一章简要介绍了奈保尔及其作品,梳理了《半生》和《魔种》这两部作品的研究现状,说明了本论文的主要内容。第二章深入探讨小说主人公威利自我身份危机产生的背景。该章分析了威利在扭曲的婚姻观念和混乱的后殖民时代现实影响下出现的自我身份困惑和焦虑。第三章则探究了威利在等级社会中追寻自我身份之旅的失败。威利试图通过婚姻和政治活动来摆脱身份危机感,重新确立独立的自我身份,却陷入了失落和无根的状态,因为婚姻和政治在等级社会中是权力争夺的工具。第四章讨论了威利在世界主义的都市空间中对自我身份的重新认识,揭示了找寻到自我身份的希望。通过反思自我身份追寻的旅程,威利对婚姻和政治的理解悄然发生变化。身处国际化的都市空间,受到朋友婚姻选择的启发,威利开始接受自己的杂糅身份。第五章将对论文进行总结。本论文将奈保尔的作品《半生》和《魔种》中的身份问题与其中的婚姻和政治书写相联系,以期为奈保尔研究提供一个新视角。
[Abstract]:Naipaul is one of the most important writers in the 21 st century. His attitude to the third world was acutely sharp, but it did not prevent him from becoming a talented writer recognized by critics. Naipaul's diverse cultural identity in India, Trinidad, and Britain has enabled him to have unique insights into cultural, ethnic, and historical issues. The sense of rootlessness and the crisis of self-identity are reflected in his later works. In Half-Life and Demon, Naipaul explores the issue of identity crisis and records the journey to self-identity. Willie's escape and stay in every place is a reperception of self. Changes in self-perception have prompted Willie to pursue self-identity, and the journey has no end. The characters in the novel, including Willie, face loneliness and anxiety and are always on the journey of seeking self-identity. This thesis focuses on the marriage and political writing of the two novels, and aims to reveal the pursuit of self identity in the cycle of India, Africa and England. The author believes that marriage and politics in the two novels are not only the cause of the crisis of the characters' self identity, but also the way they shape their self identity. Self-identity is an important topic in modern literature. The self-identity of individual is not innate, but is the product of culture and race, and the change of space and time makes the self-identity more abundant. Based on the theories of Stuart Hall, Anthony Giddens and other scholars, this paper discusses the emergence of self-identity crisis of the protagonists in Naipaul's two works and the way they seek self-identity through marriage and politics. This thesis includes five chapters. The first chapter briefly introduces Naipaul and his works, combs the research status of the two works, Half-Life and Evil seed, and explains the main contents of this thesis. Chapter two probes into the background of the crisis of self-identity of the protagonist Willie. This chapter analyzes Willie's self identity confusion and anxiety under the influence of distorted marriage concept and chaotic postcolonial reality. Chapter three explores Willie's failure in his quest for self-identity in a hierarchical society. Willie tried to get rid of the crisis of identity through marriage and political activities and to re-establish his independent self-identity, but he fell into a state of loss and rootlessness, because marriage and politics were the tools of power struggle in the hierarchical society. Chapter four discusses Willie's rethinking of self identity in cosmopolitan urban space and reveals the hope of finding self identity. By reflecting on his journey to self-identity, Willie's understanding of marriage and politics has quietly changed. In the international urban space, inspired by a friend's choice of marriage, Willie began to accept his mixed identity. The fifth chapter will summarize the thesis. In this thesis, the identity issues in Naipaul's works Half-Life and Magic seed are related to marriage and political writing, in order to provide a new perspective for Naipaul's study.
【学位授予单位】：华中师范大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2017
【分类号】：I561.074

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