ARTICULATING SILENCE: THE EXPROPRIATION OF THE PERIPHERY IN SHAME

說出沈默：《羞恥》之徵用邊緣

蘇榕(Jung Su)

《歐美研究》 30卷2期 (2000/06) Pp. 71-110

摘要

This essay focuses on how Salman Rushdie expropriates the notion of the periphery to critique dictatorship and on how his employment of the diaspora aesthetic fails to articulate the real voice of the silent and marginalized women in Shame. By discussing a number of issues that are associated with the diasporic world, including images of border and exile, meanings of home, the experience of migration, the am-bivalence of cultural identity, and the representation of several silenced Pakistani women, the essay shows that the expropriation of the periphery in Shame unravels an inner conflict of the diaspora subject and reveals its anxiety. While trying to maintain a certain detachment, the novelist apparently loses his opportunity to conduct a more in-depth exploration of the above-mentioned agenda.

關鍵字

periphery ； female ； diaspora aesthetic ； palimpsest ； Salman Rushdie

並列摘要

本文旨在探討魯希迪（Salman Rushdie）如何徵用邊緣（the periphery）的概念，據以批判獨裁政權；以及他如何運用其離散美學（diaspora aesthetic），卻未能真正替小說中被邊緣化的沈默女性發聲。藉由討論一連串有關離散世界的主題，包括邊境和放逐的意象、家的意涵、遷徙的概念、文化認同的曖昧性，以及被消音的幾位巴基斯坦女性之再現，本文試圖指出《羞恥》（Shame）之徵用邊緣揭露了離散主體（the diaspora subject）的內在矛盾和焦慮。在企圖維持疏離關係的同時，小說家顯然失去了進一步深入探討其議題的契機。

並列關鍵字

邊緣 ； 女性 ； 離散美學 ； 層層刮覆的羊皮紙 ； 魯希迪

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