《两年的水手生涯》中的正见、偏见与美墨战争  

Pride and Prejudice in Henry Richard Dana, Jr.’s Two Years before the Mast

作　　者：张陟[1] Zhang Zhi(English Department,Faculty of Foreign Languages,Ningbo University,Ningbo,Zhejiang Province,China)

机构地区：[1]宁波大学外国语学院,浙江宁波315211

出　　处：《外国文学》2021年第4期141-151,共11页Foreign Literature

基　　金：国家社科基金重点项目“‘海洋强国’语境下的英美海洋文学流变研究”(17AZD034)。

摘　　要：作为南北战争之前美国最畅销的航海叙事,达纳的《两年的水手生涯》有着鲜明的两重性。一方面,出身绅士阶层的达纳深入商船舱底,再现水手生活的艰辛与遭受的非人待遇,体现出新英格兰精英分子谋求社会改良与进步的热心,可谓时代之正见。另一方面,面对墨属加利福尼亚的当地居民,达纳继承并强化了新教传统加之于天主教地区的诸种刻板印象,可谓时代之偏见。梳理《两年的水手生涯》的广为流行与美墨战争之间的关联,更能看清共和理念与种族偏见之一体两面的结合,正是19世纪中叶美国国家意识形态的核心。As one of the most popular sea narratives in antebellum America,Two Years before the Mast bears a striking thematic duality.On one hand,it records how a Boston elite broke the class boundary,exposed the social evils,and promoted the civil right of his social inferiors in a courageous way,thus constructing a true republican American self.On the other hand,it takes a safer as well as a much prejudicial stance in its Californian narrative,feeding the racially biased domestic imagination at the cost of the Mexicans.The split of the text embodies the paradoxical nature of the imperial and expansionist ideology that culminated in the Mexican War(1846-1848)in the antebellum American period.

关 键 词：达纳 《两年的水手生涯》 航海叙事 加利福尼亚 共和理念 种族偏见 

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