中国海洋大学学报(社会科学版)

《米格尔街》是诺贝尔文学奖得主V.S.奈保尔的成名作。小说以20世纪三四十年代的特立尼达为背景,通过17个相对独立的短篇故事,勾勒出"米格尔街"居民的日常生活和精神世界。作者以独特的叙事视角,回溯了米格尔街的旧时乡邻寻求身份认同的种种困境,揭示出后殖民时代人们实现身份认同的虚无感与悲剧性。在重返童年记忆空间的写作中,奈保尔构建起后殖民文学"自我-他者"的叙事再现。

V. S. Naipaul, a Nobel Prize winner in literature in 2001, made his name by his early work Miguel Street. Miguel Street(1959), a collection of 17 short stories, is set in Trinidad in the 1940 s and depicts people's daily life and spiritual world in Miguel Street. This novel provides a specific narrative perspective on the dilemmas which the former people in Miguel Street were in when they were seeking their identities, revealing the nihility and tragedy of post-colonialist people's realizing their identities. In his writing returning to childhood memories, Naipaul constructed a post-colonialist literary "self-other" narrative perspective.