从后殖民角度解读多丽丝·莱辛之《野草在歌唱》

从后殖民角度解读英国著名女作家多丽丝·莱辛（1919-）的第一部作品《野草在歌唱》（1950）。通过对小说中的人物描写和象征手法进行分析与研究，可以领悟作者对殖民统治下土著人悲惨境地的深切同情。她通过《野草在歌唱》向读者展示了在殖民者的“东方主义者注视”下，土著人是如何被描述为一群低劣的、野蛮的、暴力的下等民族；在二者的对话中，前者自诩为“我者”，强占了中心地位，而把后者驱逐成为边缘地势上的“他者”。在殖民统治者的压迫下，小说中土著人的反抗是无言的、徒劳的，小说的标题《野草在歌唱》的真正含义实为犹如野草般的土著在痛苦的哀鸣。

Interpretation of Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing from the Postcolonial Perspective

This paper is dedicated to the postcolonial study of Doris Lessing＇s （1919-） first novel-The Grass Is Singing （1950）, indi- cating the author＇s strong sympathy for the colonized through the examination of the characters and symbols. Through this novel she successfully presented to the readers how the natives had been described as a group of vile, barbarous and vio- lent race of inferiority under the imposed ＂orientalist gaze＂. In the discourse between the colonizer and the colonized, the former assumed them as ＂Self＂, seizing the center; meanwhile they drove the latter to the periphery, labeling them as ＂Other＂. In the novel, the natives＂ revolt turned out to be voiceless and futile under the oppression of the whites. Thus the real meaning of the title, ＂The Grass Is Singing＂, actually means the grass-like natives arc wailing.