《野草在歌唱》中帝国托拉斯语境下的农场“新”秩序

外国文学研究 ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 101-111.

《野草在歌唱》中帝国托拉斯语境下的农场“新”秩序

徐彬

发布日期:2022-05-23
作者简介:徐彬,东北师范大学外国语学院教授、国际文学伦理学批评学会常务理事,主要从事英国现当代文学、流散文学和文学伦理学批评研究。
基金资助:
国家社科基金一般项目“帝国文化霸权视域下的现当代英国流散文学研究”（18BWW092）

The “New Orders” of Farm in the Context of Imperial Trust in The Grass Is Singing

Xu Bin

Published:2022-05-23
About author:Xu Bin is a professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Northeastern Normal University (Changchun 130024, China). Currently, he is engaged in the studies of contemporary British literature, diaspora literature, and ethical literary criticism. Email: haihongjiji@163.com
Supported by:
“Studies on Modern and Contemporary British Diaspora Literature in the Context of Imperial Cultural Hegemony” (18BWW092), sponsored by The National Social Science Fund of China.

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 20世纪二十至四十年代,以不列颠南非公司为代表的帝国托拉斯将南罗德西亚白人定居者的农场纳入全球经济产业链,改变了农场里的经济与种族秩序;前者涉及从传统粮食作物(玉米)种植到经济作物（烟草）种植模式的转变,后者涉及白人农场主与土著黑人之间种族关系的改变。《野草在歌唱》中,迪克破产和玛丽之死是南罗德西亚农场经济与种族关系“新”秩序共同作用下的结果。

关键词: 多丽丝·莱辛, 《野草在歌唱》, 帝国托拉斯, 农场"新"秩序, 南罗德西亚

Abstract: From 1920s to 1940s, the imperial trust represented by the British South Africa Company brought the South Rhodesian white settlers’ farms into the chain of global economy and industry. As a result, it iniated a series of changes in the economic and racial orders on South Rhodesian farms. The change of economic order is reflected in the shift in planting choices, from grain crops, such as mealie, to economic crops, such as tobacco, whereas the change of racial order is embodied by the contentious racial relationship between white farmers and native blacks. In The Grass Is Singing, Dick’s bankruptcy and Mary’s death seem to have resulted from the symbiotic change of “new orders” in economy and racial relationship on the South Rhodesian farms.

Key words: Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing, imperial trust, "new orders" of farm, South Rhodesia

徐彬. 《野草在歌唱》中帝国托拉斯语境下的农场“新”秩序[J]. 外国文学研究, 2019, 41(5): 101-111.

Xu Bin. The “New Orders” of Farm in the Context of Imperial Trust in The Grass Is Singing[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2019, 41(5): 101-111.

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