五味杂陈的酸辣酱——拉什迪《午夜的孩子》中的后殖民混杂性解读

《午夜的孩子》是后殖民文学＂教父＂拉什迪的代表作之一,它同时也是一部典型的后殖民文本。主人公萨利姆以含混的意识流叙述方式向读者展现了一个多种元素相混杂的自我,以及在自己混杂视野下的殖民地与宗主国的＂混血儿＂——印度。本文试图从叙事者文化身份、修辞技巧以及小说题材三方面来解读该作品所体现出的后殖民文本的混杂性。

Chutney of Mixed Emotions: A Reading of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Midnight＇s Children is a Booker Prize novel by Salman Rushdie,one of the representative writers of postcolonial literature.The story is told by the protagonist Saleem Sinai,who is a mix in many ways.Following his stream of consciousness,Saleem reveals us a blended nation——India.The present paper tries to explore the hybridity of this novel from three aspects,namely,the cultural identity of the narrator,rhetorical devices and sources of the text.