网络出版日期: 2022-12-02
基金资助
*本文系国家社科基金项目“美国奴隶叙事共同体的书写与想象研究”(编号20BWW063)的阶段性成果。
The City and Community in Parable of the Sowe
作为一部敌托邦小说,Octavia Butler的《播种者寓言》叙述了主人公Lauren从濒临崩溃的美国城市与社区共同体逃离,走向建立乌托邦社区共同体之路的故事。以詹姆逊的政治无意识理论为观照,将该小说文本置于政治、社会和历史三个同心框架内进行阐释和批评发现,在小说对城市与社区两种形态的共同体书写中,崩塌的罗夫莱多城市与社区共同体是欲望叙事的起点,而幸存的奥利瓦尔城市共同体是对晚期资本主义矛盾的象征性解决,其目的是压抑晚期资本主义无情地物化和奴役劳工的历史;罗夫莱多城市与社区共同体充斥着因阶级对抗而产生的恐惧的意识形态素;规划中的“地球之种”乌托邦社区共同体是愿望的满足与白日梦,它预示着一种新的文化革命方向。
杨帆, 许德金 . 《播种者寓言》中的城市与社区共同体[J]. 当代外语研究, 2022 , 22(6) : 148 -156 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2022.06.018
A dystopian fiction,Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower narrates how the protagonist Lauren in the apocalyptic America escapes from the destructed communities and moves towards the road of building a utopian community. Explored from the political, social and historical frameworks of Fredric Jameson’s The Political Unconscious,it is concluded that the falling apart of the communities of Robledo is the starting point of the narration of desire, and the surviving Olivar city is a symbolic solution to the contradictions of Late capitalism, repressing the history of the relentless reification and enslavement of the proletariat. In addition, the city and community of Robledo is rife with the ideologeme of fear generated by the class antagonism while the blueprinted utopian community of “seed of the earth” is the wish fulfillment and daydream, heralding the new direction of the cultural revolution.
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