从后殖民主义视角浅析《简爱》_英语论文

A Post-colonialist Reading of Jane Eyre

摘要

《简爱》是由英国著名的文学家夏洛蒂·勃朗特所著的一部长篇小说。自1847年问世以来，该作品便在世界文学圈中享有经久不衰的盛誉。这部作品成功的塑造了一位勇敢的、独立的、具有反叛精神的新女性形象，由此引起了来自全世界的许多文学评论家的紧密关注，着重探讨小说所反映出来的鲜明西方女性主义。在过去，国内外的许多著名学者都从不同的视角对该小说作了深入的研究。总的来看，大多数的研究都是基于女性主义、宗教文化和精神分析这几类文学理论。后殖民主义文学理论兴起于二战后的二十世纪七十年代，作为一个新兴的文学批评流派，它相对显得不够成熟，需要进一步的发展。因此，此文本将立足于后殖民主义的文学视角，力求深度解析《简爱》，旨在揭露作品中所折射出来的帝国主义中心原则、种族优越主义以及帝国主义意识形态在文学作品中的有意渗透现象。

关键词：殖民扩张 后殖民主义 文化霸权 话语权 民族优越感

Abstract

Jane Eyre, a novel written by a very famous English writer Charlotte Bronte, has obtained high reputation in the field of world literature since it was first published in 1847. Due to the rebellious, brave, and independent new female image created successfully by this novel, the striking western feminism reflected in this novel caused a lot close concerns from many literary critics. In the past, many famous scholars at home and abroad have conducted profound researches on this novel from different literary perspectives. In general, most of the researches explore its great literary value based on the theory of feminism, religious culture and psychoanalysis. Post-colonialism sprung up in 1970s after the Second World War. As an emerging school of literary criticism, it is not so mature and needs further development. Thus, this text will stand on the literary perspective of post-colonialism to profoundly analyze Jane Eyre, aiming at disclosing the imperialism-oriented principle, ethnocentrism and colonists’ political ideology’s intentional penetration into Jane Eyre.

Key words: colonial expansion post-colonialism cultural hegemony right of speech ethnocentrism 

Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter One A Brief Introduction to the Social Background 1

Chapter Two A Brief Introduction to Post-colonialism and Its Representatives 2

2.1 The Reasons for the Rising of Post-colonialism 3

2.2 The Definition and Characteristics of Post-colonialism 4

2.3 The Core Theories of the Representatives of Post-colonialism 5

Chapter Three Deprivation of the Colonized Woman’s “Right to Speak” 6

Chapter Four Degradation of Other Nation’s Culture to Show Britain’s Ethnocentrism 8

Chapter Five Sacrifice of Mason’s life in Making Jane’s Marriage Legal to Show Imperial Hegemony 11

Chapter Six The Conclusion 13

Bibliography 14

Acknowledgements 16