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《黑暗的宫殿》作为弗兰克·穆尔豪斯政治三部曲巅峰之作,曾获得迈尔斯·富兰克林奖。作品讲述了主人公伊迪丝·坎贝尔·贝瑞1941年到1945年的任职经历。将宏大的历史叙事放诸于一个人微言轻的女外交官上,用堂吉诃德式的叙事方式揭示了一幅幅20世纪腥风血雨的国际政治变换画卷。本文主要从主人公伊迪丝对自我身份的寻求出发,探讨近当代澳大利亚对自我身份(self-identity)的寻求以及建立过程,同时揭示出澳大利亚人在被边缘化、碎片化的国际环境中,对自我身份的焦虑以及对建立“澳大利亚性”(Australianness)的迫切渴望。
The Palace of Darkness won the Myers Franklin Award as the pinnacle of Frank Moorehouse’s political trilogy. The work tells the story of Lord Assisi Campbell Berry from 1941 to 1945. Put grand historical narratives on a meager female diplomat, revealing in a quixotic narrative a picture of the international political transformation of the twentieth century. This paper mainly discusses the search and establishment process of self-identity in recent modern Australia from the pursuit of self-identity by the hero Edith, and at the same time reveals that in the international environment where Australians are marginalized and fragmented, Anxiety of self-identity and the urgency to establish “Australianness.”