索因卡《反常的季节》中的社会政治想象  

The Sociopolitical Imagination in Soyinka’s Season of Anomy

作　　者：宋志明[1] Song Zhiming(the College of Chinese Language and Culture,Beijing Normal University,Beijing,100875,China)

机构地区：[1]北京师范大学汉语文化学院

出　　处：《外国文学研究》2020年第4期137-148,共12页Foreign Literature Studies

基　　金：国家社科基金一般项目“尼日利亚作家沃勒·索因卡研究”(17BWW087)。

摘　　要：尼日利亚作家沃莱·索因卡的长篇小说《反常的季节》描绘了一个公社制的乌托邦,并把神话结构和季节的周期性循环嵌入文本叙事,但这种创造性的叙事方式没有很好地与小说的政治主题相融合,政治理想的稀薄、抽象与丰富的宗教、神话、仪式以及从传统中抽象出的"再生哲学"等因素相分离,理想社会的建构最终消解为一种象征性的神话拯救,社会再生的力量寄托于大自然的周期性循环。尽管被批评为一部"失败之作",但这部左翼小说表明马克思主义的意识形态和共产主义曾经是非洲社会道路的选项之一,展示了非洲知识分子为寻求社会变革而进行探索的另一种方向。Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka’s novel, Season of Anomy, depicts a communal utopia and embeds the mythical structure and seasonal cycle into the textual narrative, but such a creative narrative mode fails to blend well with the political theme of the novel. The political ideals are flimsy and abstract, separated from other ample factors, such as religion, mythology, ritual, and the "philosophy of regeneration" extracted from traditions. The construction of an ideal society is eventually dissolved into a symbolic mythical salvation. The power of social regeneration hinges upon the cycle of nature. Despite being criticized as a "work of failure", this left-wing novel not only shows that Marxist ideology and communism used to be one of the options for the social development in Africa, but also reveals another direction in which African intellectuals could explore and pursue their social reform.

关 键 词：索因卡 《反常的季节》 乌托邦 神话 “再生哲学” 

分 类 号：I437.074[文学—其他各国文学]