《动物与帝国主义 英语文学中的后殖民动物研究》PDF下载

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  • 作  者:姜礼福著
  • 出 版 社:南京:南京大学出版社
  • 出版年份:2013
  • ISBN:9787305113994
  • 页数:181 页
图书介绍:本书运用后殖民批评理论考察当代五位前殖民地作家笔下动物意象所传递出的殖民/反殖民、生态/反生态讯息,将对种族他者和自然他者的压迫结合起来研究。具体运用“话语分析”、对比等研究方法,考察动物和帝国主义之间的体系性联系,并分别以帝国主义的暴力征服、文化控制和生态压榨三个层面作为切入点,通过透视动物意象以及动物与人的关系映射出的帝国心态和权力话语,探究英美作家的反殖民意识和小说叙述呈现出的对帝国主义话语的多样性反抗,挖掘动物意象的多元文化内涵。

Introduction 1

Chapter One Violent Conquest of Zoological Imperialism and the Transforming of Colonial Animal Stereotypes: The Animal“Bites” Back 26

a. The Conquered Tiger, and Its Awakening and Avenging in The White Tiger 30

b. Shameful Elephants, Colonial Mimicry and Brutal Slaughtering in The White Bone 44

c. European Dogs, Racialization and Violence in Disgrace 50

d. Animal Counterpart, Cannibalism and Violence in Life of Pi 58

Chapter Two Cultural Domination of Zoological Imperialism and Counter-colonial Animal Representation: The Animal “Roars” Back 64

a. Language Demythologization and Coloniser-Animal Boundary Subversion 69

b. Becoming-Animal and Cultural Identity Reconstruction 81

c. Zoological Space, Cultural Domination and Conflicts 94

d. Postcolonial Allegory, Animal Images and Cultural Conflicts 102

Chapter Three Ecological Invasion of Zoological Imperialism and the Welfare of Animal Others: The Animal “Gazes” Back 118

a. Animal Exploitation, Ecological Imperialism and Ecocritical Ethics 120

b. Western Anthropocentrism, Compromising and Coexisting with the Bengal Tiger in Life of Pi 127

c. Animal Sentimentality, Animal Subjectivity and Moaning Elephants in The White Bone 136

d. Colonial Cattle-killing Movement and Postcolonial Animal Conservation in The Heart of Redness 141

e. Natural Resource Exploitation, Animal Pathos and the Postcolonial Ecological Thinking in The White Tiger 147

Conclusion 154

Works Cited 163