“自由民主的悖论”:阿特伍德《肉体伤害》对加勒比地区民主制实验的批判  

"The Paradox of Liberal Democracy":Margaret Atwood's Critique of Democratic Experiments in the Caribbean Area in Bodily Harm

作　　者：王韵秋[1] Wang Yunqiu

机构地区：[1]杭州电子科技大学外国语学院

出　　处：《英语文学研究》2024年第2期197-211,共15页Journal of Literature in English

基　　金：国家社会科学基金后期资助项目“玛格丽特·阿特伍德的创伤叙事与现代性批判”(19FWWB027)阶段性研究成果;杭州电子科技大学外国语学院北美国别区域研究团队支持。

摘　　要：玛格丽特·阿特伍德的政治小说《肉体伤害》后半部分聚焦于一场民主选举事件,详实地再现了英属加勒比区域独立后的政治复杂性:在国内政治格局层面,推崇自由主义的保守派执政党与崇尚激进传统的在野党构成了本土政治的“左右”阵营,体现了新的代替旧殖民体系的民主制度的隐性本质,而重视历史文化边界和全球化的杂糅主义者则建立了基于混血身份认同的反对党,表现了解殖民理念和政治实践之间的悖谬本质。在国际政治层面,在英国“退出”后,美国和古巴两国构成了英属加勒比区域的地缘政治主体,显示了国际权力体系的重置。通过将国别性与区域性、具体性与普遍性置于一个连续的文学经验之中,阿特伍德重审了本土政治、文化边界与国际关系的层层逻辑,批判了西方自由民主体制的全球化背后隐藏的意识形态偏见。Margaret Atwood's political novel Bodily Harm,with its second half focusing on a democratic election in a former British colony in the Caribbean area,accurately represents the country's post-independence political complexity.On the internal politics front,the conservative ruling party which advocates liberalism and the opposition party which advocates radical traditionalism constitute the"left and right"camps,signifying the hidden nature of the new hierarchical democracy which is now replacing the old colonial system.The hybridists who attach high importance to cultural boundaries and globalization have established another opposition party based on mixed-race identity,revealing the paradoxical nature of the concepts of decolonization and its political practice.On the international politics front,after the British"withdrawal",the US and Cuba became the new geopolitical players in the Caribbean area,indicating the reset of the hegemonic system.By putting nationality and regionality,concreteness and universality into a continuous literary experience,Atwood re-examines the multilayer logic of native politics,cultural boundaries,and international relations,and criticized the ideological bias behind the globalization of Western liberal and democratic systems.

关 键 词：阿特伍德 加勒比 自由主义 民主制试验 解殖民 

分 类 号：I711.074[文学—其他各国文学]