The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
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穆尔克·拉吉·阿南德的《贱民》和阿米塔夫·戈什的《罂粟花海》中的殖民狂欢节
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10.1080/17449855.2016.1227358
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2016
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Thiara N
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Thiara N
本文以巴赫金的小说《贱民》和《罂粟花海》为例，认为这两部小说以殖民狂欢节的形式，表现了对前殖民地传统等级制度，特别是种姓制度的颠覆。他们对种姓制度颠倒的表现经常使用涉及粪便的怪诞形象。这种狂欢节的小说形式体现在颠倒的世界形象中，一方面，它让人对受到羞辱的高种姓人物感到嘲笑或幸灾乐祸，另一方面，它使达利特人摆脱了高种姓所等同的泥潭和污秽。本文分析了这些小说中对贱民和种姓的批判性表述是否相当于对种姓制度本身的批判，或者它们是否仅限于对贱民做法的批判。
Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, this article argues that the novelsUntouchableby Mulk Raj Anand andSea of Poppiesby Amitav Ghosh represent the destabilization of traditional, pre-colonial hierarchies, especially those of caste, by employing the mode of the colonial carnivalesque. Their representations of the inversion of caste hierarchies often employ grotesque images involving excrement. This novelistic form of the carnivalesque manifests in images of the world-upside-down, which on the one hand invite laughter or a sense of schadenfreude towards humiliated high-caste figures, and on the other hand elevate Dalits from the mire and filth with which the upper-castes equate them. The article analyses whether the critical representations of Untouchability and caste in these novels amount to a critique of the caste system per se, or whether they are confined to a critique of the practices of Untouchability.