由厄普代克的《兔子富了》看石油文学的悖论书写  

The Paradoxical Writing of Petroleum Literature in Rabbit Is Rich

作　　者：陈文佳 Chen Wenjia(Fudan University,Shanghai,China,200433)

机构地区：[1]复旦大学英文系

出　　处：《当代外国文学》2024年第3期20-27,共8页Contemporary Foreign Literature

基　　金：上海市浦江人才计划(22PJC009)资助。

摘　　要：本文基于近年欧美学界新兴的石油文化研究,将厄普代克的经典小说《兔子富了》读作石油文学的典型案例,并从时间经济、空间转移、个体隐喻三个维度,分析小说展现的1979年石油危机在美国国内推动的金融投机、政治右转、自恋文化的趋势,同时揭示石油在催生这些变革的同时,其自身的政治和生态意义却无形中被消解的悖论。这种在场和缺席之间的矛盾,是石油文学的典型表现形式,也为其研究提供了一种范式启示。Based on the emerging petroculture studies in Euro-American aca-demia in recent years,this article reads John Updike's classic Rabbit Is Rich as a typical case of petroleum literature.Through the three dimensions of temporal economy,spatial transfer,and metaphor of the self,it analyzes the way in which the novel reveals the trends of financial speculation,a political rightward turn,and narcissistic culture in the U.S.that were driven by the 1979 oil crisis.Moreover,the article demonstrates the paradox that while oil gives rise to such transformations,its own political and ecological significance is inadver-tently undermined by them.The seeming contradiction between presence and absence typical-ly characterizes petroleum literature and provides a paradigmatic inspiration for its study.

关 键 词：厄普代克 《兔子富了》 石油文学 石油危机 政治右转 

分 类 号：I712.074[文学—其他各国文学]