吉恩·图默《甘蔗》与《巴洛》中的农作物书写与资本主义批判  

The Crops Writing and Critique of Capitalism in Jean Toomer's Cane and Balo

作　　者：刘翠翠 石平萍 LIU Cui-cui;SHIPing-ping

机构地区：[1]国防科技大学外国语学院,江苏南京210039

出　　处：《外语导刊》2024年第6期137-145,154,158,共11页Foreign Languages Bimonthly

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目“美国少数族裔乡村书写研究”(20BWWW064)。

摘　　要：本文借助新物质主义批评理论话语和文学与经济跨学科研究方法探究美国非裔作家吉恩·图默的混杂文体小说《甘蔗》和独幕剧《巴洛》中农作物与人类交织缠绕的关系。其棉花书写强调人类行动者在与棉花、木材等物所构建的经济集合中的道德责任,揭露了棉花拜物教以及棉花施展的恐惧力背后的资本主义逻辑与权力关系,由此填补了新物质主义批评所缺失的政治批判性维度。其甘蔗书写凸显甘蔗去人类中心、去资本化的能动力,与棉花书写构成对照互补的关系,强化了他对美国农业资本主义的批判。Borrowing the theoretical insights of new materialism and the interdisciplinary research method of literature and economics,the present paper explores the interweaving relationship between crops and human beings in Jean Toomer's hybrid novel Cane and one-act play Balo.Meanwhile,he denounces the destruction of nature caused by human agency,especially of bourgeois actants,reiterating the moral responsibility of human actants in the economic assemblage constructed with cane,cotton,wood,and other things.And by writing about the enslavement of black people by cotton and their long history of suffering violence,he discloses the logic of capitalism and power relationship behind cotton fetishism and the power of fear performed by cotton.Hence,Toomer's cotton writing makes up for the political inadequacy of new materialism.Unlike cotton,the cane portrayed by Toomer is endowed with the agency of de-anthropocentricity and de-capitalization,reversely reinforcing his critique of Ameriean agricultural eapitalism.

关 键 词：吉恩·图默 甘蔗 巴洛 农作物 新物质主义 资本主义 美国非裔文学 

分 类 号：I712.074[文学—其他各国文学]