失落之行：全球化中的冲突与孤立a passage of loss conflict and isolation under globalization.docVIP

失落之行：全球化中的冲突与孤立 A Passage of Loss: Conflict and Isolation under Globalization 摘要：课题以基兰?德赛（Kiran Desai）的小说The Inheritance of Loss（《继承失落》）（2006）和福斯特（E. M. Forster）的小说《印度之行》（A Passage to India）（1924）作为研究文本，从文化等级角度入手，探讨由于文化等级所造成的印度人在殖民以及独立后在面对不同文化冲撞下的不适与困境，以及他们对于解决这一问题所作出的尝试。 《继承失落》获得了2006年度英国及英联邦最高文学奖“布克奖”。作者基兰?德赛出身于印度。14岁时离开故乡，前往英国；一年后，她又移居美国，在那里学习和生活至今。德赛此次获奖，是她成为“布克奖”历史上最年轻的获奖女作家，也是继萨尔曼?拉什迪（Salman Rushdie）和阿兰达蒂?洛伊（Arundhati Roy）之后，又一位捧得“布克奖”的印度作家。德赛在她的小说中弱化了“东方情调”以及印度的“神秘感”等在西方可能成为卖点的因素，而着重关注东西方的文化碰撞，以及人们在这种文化碰撞下的处境与所面对的困难。 另一个研究文本是《印度之行》，这是一部在20世纪很有影响力的小说，自其出版发行以来一直颇受好评。小说讲述了两位英国妇女在印度遭遇的一系列文化冲击。由于《印度之行》在早期东西方文化接触这一历史背景下写成，可以为如今依然存在的文化等级与文化共存上的困境提供深层的启示。 课题将通过对这两本小说的阅读，试图就殖民时期遗留至今的文化等级问题对当今深受不同文化影响的东方人所带来的不适与困境，以及他们试图对西方文化霸权进行挑战所作出的尝试进行讨论。 关键词：文化等级 身份危机 西方文化霸权 Abstract: From the perspective of cultural hierarchy, this thesis mainly discusses its influence on the Indian people in the novel The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and A Passage to India by E. M. Forster. The Inheritance of Loss is the winner of the Booker Prize for 2006. Its author Kiran Desai was born in India. She left for Britain in the age of 14, and moved to the U.S. a year after. She is the third Indian English novelists to win the Booker Prize after Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, and she is youngest woman winner. Her novel focuses on an Indian family in the 1980s and their struggle between two cultures. A Passage to India is probably the most well-know English novel on India. The novel is about the trip of two English ladies to India. Written in colonial days, it helps to examine the establishment of cultural hierarchy in colonial India In this thesis, I will analyze the establishment of cultural hierarchy and its impact especially on natives in colonial days, the lingering power of western cultural dominance in the post-colonial time, and the attempt to fight against it Keywords: cultural hierarchy identity crisis western cultural dominance Prologue “A magnificent novel of