爱伦·坡的《跳蛙》与美国废奴运动

当代外语研究 ›› 2013, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (01): 68-72.

爱伦·坡的《跳蛙》与美国废奴运动

张虎

南开大学,天津,300071

出版日期:2013-01-15 发布日期:2020-07-25
作者简介:张虎,南开大学文学院博士研究生。主要研究方向为土耳其文学。电子邮箱:frodo2006@163.com

Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog and Abolitionist Movement in the United States

ZHANG Hu

Online:2013-01-15 Published:2020-07-25

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 《跳蛙》是爱伦·坡发表于1849年的一部恐怖小说。本文以坡所生活的19世纪上半叶为历史背景,结合当时的两种著名政治修辞——亲奴主义与废奴主义,探究南方奴隶制的状况和坡与种族主义的关系,揭示主人公跳蛙与国王的种族身份,破解文本中的种族密码与暗语,指出坡在小说中书写国王对跳蛙之奴役、跳蛙对国王之复仇的外部社会与文化原因。20世纪九十年代以来,坡的非政治、超历史的唯美主义形象受到了巨大挑战。今天,重读《跳蛙》可以就坡晚年时对南方奴隶制的矛盾态度这一问题形成更为清晰的认识。

关键词: 爱伦·坡, 《跳蛙》, 奴隶制, 废奴主义, 亲奴主义

Abstract: Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog is a horror fiction written in 1849. By discussing the two famous political rhetoric: proslavery and abolitionism, the condition of southern slavery and the relationship between Poe and racism, this paper aims to reveal the racial identities of the protagonist hop-frog and the king, to break the racial code in the text, and to analyze the social and cultural reasons that Poe created the plots of the king enslaving hop-frog and hop-frog revenging on the king, at the background of the first half of the 19th century which Poe lived in all his life. Nowadays, rereading Hop-Frog would facilitate a clearer recognition about the contradictory attitude of Poe for southern slavery in his old age.

中图分类号:

I106.7

张虎. 爱伦·坡的《跳蛙》与美国废奴运动[J]. 当代外语研究, 2013, 13(01): 68-72.

ZHANG Hu. Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog and Abolitionist Movement in the United States[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2013, 13(01): 68-72.

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