由《泰比》看赫尔曼·麦尔维尔的殖民思想

• 作 者: 叶小妮
• 机 构: 湖北汽车工业学院外国语学院,
• 出 处: 兰州教育学院学报
• 发表日期: 2015年02期
• 关键词: 赫尔曼·麦尔维尔 《泰比》 殖民主义

赫尔曼·麦尔维尔是19世纪美国浪漫主义文学的杰出作家,《泰比》是其最早的试笔文学创作,讲述的是主人公托莫因忍受不了“多利号”船上枯燥无味的生活而弃船闯入泰比峡谷,并与泰比人一起生活的历险故事。近年来,随着文学批评的不断深入,人们发现《泰比》并不是一部简单的游历故事,而是一部“融冒险、轶事、人种学和社会批评于一体的著作”。本文首先对作者殖民主义思想产生的根源进行分析,然后以作品本身为依托,探究其殖民主义思想在作品中的体现。

Herman Melville is an outstanding writer of American romantic literature in the 19th century. “Tybee” is one of the earliest experimental writing literary works, and it is about the protagonist Tuomo Can not tolerate the boring life on the ship “Dolly” The abandonment ship broke into the Tayi canyon and lived with the tebbi adventure story. In recent years, with the continuous deepening of literary criticism, it has been discovered that “Thai-Tb” is not a simple travel story but an “integrated works of adventure, anecdote, ethnography and social criticism” . This article first analyzes the root causes of the author’s colonialism, and then relies on the work itself to explore the embodiment of his colonialism in his works.