后殖民主义视角下奥斯汀的帝国叙事与帝国意识

发布时间：2018-04-01 19:22

本文选题：简·奥斯汀　切入点：帝国叙事　出处：《广西大学》2014年硕士论文

【摘要】：简·奥斯汀(1775-1817)是英国18世纪著名的女性小说家,她共给世人提供了六部完整的小说。作为一位一生没有机会走出去、没有太多见识的18世纪英国女性,她孜孜不倦地在她熟知的“一寸象牙”上镌刻一个又一个以婚姻为圆心的喜剧。这些小说主要关注的都是乡绅家庭女性的婚姻和生活,简·奥斯汀以其女性特有的细致入微的观察力和活泼风趣的文字真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地。小说自出版以来就受到了国内外读者的热烈而深刻的喜爱；迄今为止,她的小说已被译为20多种语言,有些更是家喻户晓。然而,简·奥斯汀的小说也曾遭到学者的抨击。这些学者指责她的小说只关注一个小地方的几户人家的男女婚姻问题,不关注外部世界的变化和发展,不关注当时英国的时政。但实际上,这种指责是有失偏颇的。社会存在决定社会意识,在处于摄政王朝时期的背景下创作,不管作者是有意避免写进社会环境还是真的忘记描述,作品都不可避免的会打上那个时代的烙印。本论文运用后殖民主义尤其是赛义德东方主义批评的相关理论,将文本中虚拟的帝国叙事空间和文本外真实的历史相结合,具体分析隐藏在简·奥斯汀小说中的帝国主义意识和意象,以及小说如何体现处于帝国话语权力中心的英国和处于帝国话语权力边缘的他者们之间的关系。通过分析,我们可以看到：生长在英帝国主义殖民扩张时期的简·奥斯汀在大英帝国的国家制度、民族文化、道德价值体系以及家庭秩序的优越性的熏陶下,具有大不列颠和殖民帝国主义的意识,因此她在作品中描写了殖民扩张政策,流露出对帝国主义的认同。只是,不同于笛福、吉卜林和康拉德,简·奥斯汀将自己对帝国主义扩张的态度和描绘巧妙地潜藏在一些看似平淡无奇的情感细节中。
[Abstract]:Jane Austen (1775-1817) is a famous British female novelist in the 18th century. She has provided six complete novels to the world. She endlessly engraved one comedy after another on her familiar "one inch of ivory". These novels focus on the marriage and life of squire women. Jane Austen, with her unique feminine powers of observation and lively and witty writing, truly depicts the world around her. The novel has been enthusiastically and deeply loved by readers both at home and abroad since its publication; so far, Her novels have been translated into more than 20 languages, some of them household names. However, Jane Austen's novels have also been attacked by scholars who accuse her of focusing only on the marriage of several families in a small place, not on changes and developments in the outside world. Not paying attention to the current British political situation at that time. But in fact, this kind of accusation is biased. Social existence determines social consciousness and is created in the context of the Regent dynasty. Whether the author deliberately avoids writing into the social environment or really forgets the description, the work will inevitably be branded by that era. This thesis combines the fictitious imperial narrative space in the text with the real history outside the text, using the relevant theories of post-colonialism, especially the criticism of said Orientalism. This paper analyzes concretely the imperialist consciousness and image hidden in Jane Austen's novels, and how the novel reflects the relationship between Britain at the center of imperial discourse power and others on the edge of imperial discourse power. We can see that Jane Austen, who grew up during the colonial expansion of British imperialism, was nurtured by the superiority of the British Empire's national system, national culture, moral value system, and family order. Having a sense of British and colonial imperialism, she describes the policy of colonial expansion in her works, revealing her recognition of imperialism, except, unlike Defoe, Kipling and Conrad, Jane Austen cleverly hides her attitude and portrayal of imperialist expansion in seemingly mundane emotional details.
【学位授予单位】：广西大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2014
【分类号】：I561.074

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