远方与沙乡:植物同情心的地理羁绊  

Faraway Places and Desert Country:The Geographical Hindrance to Plant Sympathy

作　　者：闫建华[1] 方昉[1] Yan Jianhua;Fang Fang

机构地区：[1]浙江工业大学外国语学院,浙江杭州310023

出　　处：《鄱阳湖学刊》2022年第2期88-96,127,共10页Journal of Poyang Lake

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目“美国文学中的沙漠书写与国民教育研究”(18BWW080)。

摘　　要：植物同情心是在全球植物不断遭到破坏、植物伦理的建构吁求变得日益迫切的当下语境中提出来的一个核心概念,它通过揭示人类与植物之间的共生关系,倡导一种平等的植物同情伦理观,因而很自然地成为植物批评关注的一个焦点。从现有的理论阐释和批评实践来看,学界主要着眼于植物同情心的释放所产生的积极影响,颇有一种将植物同情心均质化的倾向,忽视了地理位置和地理物种对植物同情心产生的负面影响。针对这一现象,文章重点考察了两种全然不同的地理景观上的植物,即神话传奇中远方的绿色植物和早期经典作家笔下沙漠里的褐色植物。研究结果表明,地理位置越是偏远、地理物种越是“反常”,植物同情心越是吝啬。植物同情心的地理羁绊也是植物同情伦理建构中的一种羁绊,应引起学界的重视。Plant sympathy is a key concept put forward in the contemporary context of the worldwide destruction of plants and the consequent urgent call for establishing plant ethics.By shedding light on the symbiotic relationship between humans and plants,plant sympathy advocates a kind of ethics appealing to equality and sympathy for plants,and has naturally become a focus of attention in the emerging field of critical plant studies.Judging from the current theoretical interpretation and critical practice of plant sympathy,the academia mainly focuses on its positive impacts.It is a tendency to homogenize plant sympathy but ignore the fact that geographical locations and species also exert some negative impacts.This paper addresses the tendency and specifically examines plants in two disparate geographical places,namely,the green plants in faraway places that appear in mythological stories and the brown desert plants that appear in the works of early classical writers.The results show that the more remote the geographical location is,or the more“abnormal”the geographical species appears to be,the less sympathy plants are likely to get.Therefore,the geographical hindrance of plant sympathy is also a hindrance to the construction of plant sympathy ethics,which surely merits our attention.

关 键 词：植物批评 植物同情心 远方 沙乡 沙漠植物 

分 类 号：I06[文学—文学理论]