论库切“耶稣系列”小说中乌托邦社会的建构

外国文学研究 ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 138-150.

论库切“耶稣系列”小说中乌托邦社会的建构

蔡圣勤, 吕曰文

出版日期:2019-08-25 发布日期:2022-05-18
作者简介:蔡圣勤,中南财经政法大学外国语学院教授,主要从事南非英语文学研究;吕曰文,中南财经政法大学博士生,从事西方马克思主义理论和非洲研究。
基金资助:
国家社会科学基金项目“西方马克思主义视域下的南非20世纪英语小说研究”（14BWW075）

The Construction of Utopia in J. M. Coetzee's “Jesus Novel Series”

Cai Shengqin, Lu Yuewen

Online:2019-08-25 Published:2022-05-18
About author:Cai Shengqin is a professor at The School of Foreign Studies, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, 430073 China). His research is mainly focused on South African English literature. Email: caisqq@zuel.edu.cn Lu Yuewen, a PhD candidate at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, studies the Western theory of Marxism and African studies. Email: 1598330770@qq.com
Supported by:
“A Study on South African English Novels in the 20^th Century from the Perspective of Western Marxism”(14BWW075) sponsored by National Social Science Fund of China

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 库切的“耶稣系列”小说《耶稣的童年》和《耶稣的学生时代》以主人公大卫的童年和小学阶段的成长经历为轴心,塑造了一个没有剥削和压迫的乌托邦社会。本文以恩斯特·布洛赫的希望哲学为理论基础,从教育乌托邦、婚姻乌托邦和宗教乌托邦等三个维度,对“耶稣系列”中的乌托邦世界进行分析,发现作者通过小说中乌托邦社会的建构,反思并批判了当前西方社会存在的种种弊端,而其对乌托邦社会建构的目的在于唤醒人们内心的乌托邦理想,鼓励人们超越现存世界的种种桎梏,成为自由而全面发展的个体,从而实现人的解放。

关键词: 库切, 乌托邦, 希望哲学, 《耶稣的童年》, 《耶稣的学生时代》

Abstract: J.M. Coetzee's “Jesus Series” novels, The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, take the protagonist David's childhood and growing experience in primary school as the axis in creating a utopian society without exploitation and oppression. Based on Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope, this paper attempts to analyze the utopian world constructed in the “Jesus Series” from three perspectives: educational utopia, marital utopia, and religious utopia. Also, we wish to share our conclusion that Coetzee's construction of the utopia society in his novels is intended as a reflection and critique of various problems in the Western society today, and that he aims at arousing people's inner utopian ideal and encourage them to break through various shackles of the present world for a chance to not only become free and well-rounded individuals, but also accomplish the liberation of the mankind.

Key words: J. M. Coetzee, utopia, the philosophy of hope, The Childhood of Jesus, The Schooldays of Jesus

蔡圣勤, 吕曰文. 论库切“耶稣系列”小说中乌托邦社会的建构[J]. 外国文学研究, 2019, 41(4): 138-150.

Cai Shengqin, Lu Yuewen. The Construction of Utopia in J. M. Coetzee's “Jesus Novel Series”[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2019, 41(4): 138-150.

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