反恐话语与伊战的本体论批判：《尸体清洗者》中的反战书写

外国文学研究 ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4): 125-133.

反恐话语与伊战的本体论批判：《尸体清洗者》中的反战书写

陈豪

出版日期:2017-08-25 发布日期:2022-06-15
作者简介:陈豪,上海对外经贸大学讲师,主要从事英美现当代文学研究。

The Corpse Washer: An Ontological Critique of Counter-Terrorist Discourse and Iraq War

Chen Hao

Online:2017-08-25 Published:2022-06-15
About author:Chen Hao is lecturer at School of Foreign Language, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (Shanghai 201620, China). His main research field is English and American modern literature. Email: textbook_5@126.com

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 塞南·安图恩的小说《尸体清洗者》对战乱中的伊拉克人民投以本体论的关注,为伊战文学打开了新视角。小说批判了美国反恐话语的暴力本质,及对待外族的他者化标准。小说诠释了日常生活和艺术观念如何作为非暴力抵抗手段推进反战的理论和实践。死亡叙事由尸体清洗仪式延伸开去,表现了战争对存在本体的毁灭性打击,而死亡又以其辩证否定过程重新唤起主体的觉醒,解决了反战艺术的内在悖论,对由战争引起的“根本恶”的蔓延起到了一定遏制作用。

关键词: 《尸体清洗者》, 伊拉克战争, 反战文学, 反恐话语

Abstract: Sinan Antoon's The Corpse Washer has an ontological concern over the misery of Iraqi people and initiates a new perspective for Iraqi-war literature. It denounces violence and the trend of treating alien nations as the other in the U.S. counter-terrorist discourse. It also exemplifies how daily life and art advance anti-war theory and practice as a means of non-violent resistance. Beginning with the ritual of corpse washing, the death narrative exhibits the devastating effect of war on one's ontological entity. The dialectic negation of death gives rise to the awakening of subjective being and resolves the immanent paradox of anti-war art, which inhibits the dissemination of “radical evil”.

Key words: The Corpse Washer, Iraqi War, anti-war literature, counter-terrorist discourse

陈豪. 反恐话语与伊战的本体论批判：《尸体清洗者》中的反战书写[J]. 外国文学研究, 2017, 39(4): 125-133.

Chen Hao. The Corpse Washer: An Ontological Critique of Counter-Terrorist Discourse and Iraq War[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2017, 39(4): 125-133.

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