当代澳大利亚土著小说中的负面情感书写与社会正义  

Negative Emotion and Social Justice in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Fiction

作　　者：冯军 Feng Jun(the School of Foreign Languages,China Three Gorges University,Yichang,China,443002)

机构地区：[1]三峡大学外国语学院

出　　处：《当代外国文学》2024年第1期94-101,共8页Contemporary Foreign Literature

基　　金：国家社会科学基金重大项目“认知诗学研究与理论版图重构”(20&ZD291)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：后殖民情感研究是澳大利亚土著文学研究中的一个热点。赖特的《卡彭塔利亚湾》和科尔曼的《无主之地》叙述了欧洲殖民统治给澳洲原住民所带来的历史创伤。从后殖民研究和文学情感研究的交叉视角来看,这些叙事作品不仅对澳大利亚白人官方史学中占主导地位的欧洲中心主义话语体系提出了挑战,而且试图借助策略性的情感叙事达到促进社会公平正义的目的。小说中对历史创伤、悲伤和脆弱自我的文学表征,有望引起非土著读者的羞耻和内疚等负面情感。这种道德情感被认为与更强大的文学移情有关,并对社会和个体具有建设性意义。结合两部当代澳大利亚土著女性作家的小说,本文指出,在后殖民叙事语境下,负面情感作为一种具有积极作用的情感,能够促进社会正义,这与欧美传统观念中对负面情感的贬低形成了鲜明对比。Post-colonial affective study is a hot topic in contemporary Australian indigenous literature.Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and Claire Coleman’s Terra Nullius are two narratives embedded in the historical context of European colonization depicting the consequences of traumatic aboriginal history.A view from the intersection of post colonial studies and affective literary studies considers these narratives not just as a challenge to the dominant Eurocentric views of white Australian official historiography,but also as a strategic utilization of negative emotions to foster social justice.Through representations of historical trauma,grief,and the topos of the vulnerable self,these narratives are expected to induce shame and guilt in their non-indigenous readers.These moral emotions are thought to be associated with greater empathy and to have constructive social and personal consequences.By placing in dialogue an apocalyptic novel and a piece of speculative post-apocalypse fiction written by two contemporary female Australian indigenous authors,this article attempts to make a case for perceiving traumatic grief in this particular context as a positive emotion which has the potential of fostering social justice.This perception stands in sharp contrast with the belief,prevalent in European and American contexts,that negative emotions are undesirable and inappropriate.

关 键 词：澳大利亚土著文学 后殖民小说 历史创伤 负面情感 社会正义 

分 类 号：I611.074[文学—其他各国文学]