从《简爱》到《辽阔的藻海》:抵抗与身分认同之追寻

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论文名称: 从《简爱》到《辽阔的藻海》:抵抗与身分认同之追寻
论文名称: From Jane Eyre to Wide Sargasso Sea:Resistance and a Quest for Identity

关键词:
简爱 Jane Eyre
辽阔的藻海 Wide Sargasso Sea
后殖民 postcolonial
东方主义 Orientalism
谐拟 mimicry
身分认同 identity

[摘要]
随着后殖民理论的发展与传播,在帝国主义羽翼下所产出的所谓经典作品必须重新检视,
而隐藏其下的意识型态也必须揭露出来。在《简爱》中,牙买加来的混种女子被描述为疯
狂及非理性,然而,她却没有为自己发言或辩解机会。本论文阐述《辽阔的藻海》为
了抗议《简爱》对柏莎的(误)再现,将她被缄默的历史重新放置在西印度群岛的脉络中
呈现出来。《简爱》中的缄默用来作为欧洲优越感的衬托背景,而《辽阔的藻海》中
柏莎/安多烈特的声音则是成为柏莎在《简爱》中的前景,干涉以欧洲为中心的思想所建构
出的疯狂意象。此外,借着描写在西印度群岛上复杂的权力关系,《辽阔的藻海》揭
露被殖民者当中的异质,而非在东方主义的文本中所显示出的同质。
本论文共四章,第一章之前的序论借用尼采的洞见提出有关真理的议题,并简介各章内容
。第一章探讨《简爱》中的东方主义。第二章讨论《辽阔的藻海》运用谐拟范畴内、
外的策略所形成对《简爱》的抵抗。第三章检视被殖民者中的差异及身分认同之建构。最
后,结论重述本论文的要点并强调从《简爱》过渡到《辽阔的藻海》的重要性。

[摘要]
As postcolonial theory is widely spread and developed, the so-called canon 
produced under the umbrella of imperialism must now be reconsidered and the 
embedded Eurocentric ideologies should be divulged. In Jane Eyre, the Creole 
woman from Jamaica is described as mad and irrational while she is denied any 
sites of enunciation to speak for herself. In this thesis I would like to 
argue that Wide Sargasso Sea, with its protest against the (mis)representation 
of Bertha, recontextualizes the silenced history of Bertha in the West Indies. 
While the silence in Jane Eyre is treated as the background against which 
European superiority is spotlighted, the voice of Bertha/Antoinette in Wide 
Sargasso Sea serves as the foreground intervening the Eurocentrism-based 
construction of Bertha's dehumanized image in Jane Eyre. What's more, by 
delineating the complex power relationship in the West Indies, Wide Sargasso 
Sea discloses the heterogeneity of the colonized, not the homogeneity 
manifested in Orientalist texts.
The thesis consists of three chapters. Before Chapter One, Introduction 
brings up the issue of "truth" by adopting Nietzsche's insight and provides 
an overview of the following chapters. Chapter One investigates the 
Eurocentrism and the Orientalist representation of Bertha in Jane Eyre. 
Chapter Two explores the resistance Wide Sargasso Sea manages through 
strategies both of mimicry and beyond mimicry. Chapter Three examines the 
differences of the colonized and the identity construction. Finally, 
Conclusion recapitulates the major arguments of the thesis and strengthens the 
significance of the passage from Jane Eyre to Wide Sargasso Sea.

    

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