帝国主义语境中的个人关系——《印度之行》新解  

Personal Relations in the Context of Imperialism:A New Perspective on A Passage to India

作　　者：李霄垅[1] 李建波[2] 

机构地区：[1]河海大学外国语学院 [2]南京国际关系学院

出　　处：《当代外国文学》2014年第2期93-100,共8页Contemporary Foreign Literature

摘　　要：E·M·福斯特开始写作《印度之行》的时候是想通过描写个人之间的关系,表达自己对于个人关系问题的主张。但是,很快他就发现国际关系及其影响下的人际关系是他在写作中绕不开的现实。发展个人关系的阻力来自国际关系的需要,而国际关系因素介入个人关系形成张力。小说中,建立个人关系所有努力似尽数失败,福斯特似乎也对个人关系的适用广度作了悲观的结论。但是,从历史来看,似乎恰是"柔"的个人关系要素浸软了英帝国的"刚"性统治手腕,也导致了英帝国的解体。E. M. Forster started his writing of A Passage to lndia with a vision of personal relations. However, he soon found out that the context of imperialism and its influence on personal contact loomed large. In India, the requirements of imperialism blocked the consummation of personal relations, intensifing the friction and even conflicts between values. In the novel, the attempts to establish personal relations seem to be squashed by imperialist conventions. Seen from a historical perspective, however, the ＂softness＂ underlying the notion of personal relations worked its way into international relations and helped to take the British Empire apart.

关 键 词：E·M·福斯特 《印度之行》 个人关系 帝国主义 

分 类 号：I561.074[文学—其他各国文学]