古尔纳《天堂》中的商旅叙事

外国文学研究 ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 68-79.

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古尔纳《天堂》中的商旅叙事

卢敏

出版日期:2022-04-25 发布日期:2022-04-29
作者简介:卢敏,上海师范大学外国语学院教授,上海市“世界文学多样性与文明互鉴”创新团队骨干成员,主要从事非洲英语文学和英美文学研究。
基金资助:
国家社会科学基金重大项目“非洲英语文学史”（19ZDA296）

The Narrative of Trading Safari in Gurnah's Paradise

Lu Min

Online:2022-04-25 Published:2022-04-29
About author:Lu Min is a professor at the College of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Normal University (Shanghai 200234, China) and one of the leading members of the innovative research team on “The Diversity of World Literature and Transfers between Civilizations” in Shanghai, speclializing in African literature in English, English and American literature. Email: lumin@shnu.edu.cn
Supported by:
“A History of African Literature in English” (19ZDA296) sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 阿卜杜勒拉扎克·古尔纳的《天堂》通过少年优素福的成长和参与的商旅活动生动,再现了19世纪下半叶到第一次世界大战前东非复杂的社会、经济、政治、文化状况。古尔纳从东非两千多年商旅活动的传统性、目的性、运动性、反思性特征出发,发展出嵌套式的叙事结构和不断深入的叙事层次,以《古兰经》《圣经》故事和诸多斯瓦希里旅行文本为基础,描绘了人物形象众多、人物关系复杂、时空跨越度大的广阔商旅世界图景,引领读者随商旅队从印度洋到非洲内陆,从蒙巴萨到俄罗斯,进行跨越时空的精神旅行,并对东非贸易、奴隶制、欧洲殖民、伊斯兰和印度文化遗产进行全面反思,展示了高超的叙事艺术。

关键词: 古尔纳, 《天堂》, 商旅叙事

Abstract: Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise vividly represents the complexity of East African society, economy, politics, and culture between the second half of the 19th century and the start of World War I through young Yusuf's growth and participation in the trading safaris. Gurnah relies on the traditional, purposeful, nomadic, and reflective characteristics of trading safaris that have lasted in East Africa for more than 2,000 years in developing an embedded narrative structure with layers of ever-deepening narration. Based on the stories from The Koran, The Bible, and many Swahili travelogues, he creates a wide world of trading safaris that not only features numerous images of characters and complicated relationships among them, but also transcends a broad realm of time and space. While taking the readers along for a spiritual journey, across time and space, with the trading safaris from the Indian Ocean to African interior and from Mombasa to Russia, Gurnah reflects, comprehensively, on East African trade, slavery, European colonization, and Islamic and Indian cultural heritage, and demonstrates his superb narrative craft as well.

Key words: Gurnah, Paradise, the Narrative of Trade Safari

卢敏. 古尔纳《天堂》中的商旅叙事[J]. 外国文学研究, 2022, 44(2): 68-79.

Lu Min. The Narrative of Trading Safari in Gurnah's Paradise[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2022, 44(2): 68-79.

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