The Lullaby’s Utopian Function and the Green Utopian Imagination in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Aihua Chen, Yue Li
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ABSTRACT The lullaby “The Meadow Song” in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy provides a narrative fulcrum and plays a vital role in reinforcing these novels’ thematic concern. However, extant criticism has not given due attention to its utopian function. Drawing upon Ernest Bloch’s philosophy of music and other critics’ theories on green utopia, this article intends to argue that the lullaby fulfills the utopian function of fueling Katniss’s and other rebels’ utopian imagination to fight for a better world of justice, equality, and freedom. It also posits that the green utopian community inspired by the lullaby in the last book of the trilogy functions not as an escapist pursuit, but as a micropolitical alternative in an era of global capitalism.
《摇篮曲》的乌托邦功能与柯林斯《饥饿游戏三部曲》中的绿色乌托邦想象
在苏珊·柯林斯的《饥饿游戏》三部曲中,催眠曲《草地之歌》提供了一个叙事支点,对强化小说的主题关注起着至关重要的作用。然而,现有的批评并没有对其乌托邦功能给予应有的重视。本文借鉴欧内斯特·布洛赫的音乐哲学和其他批评家关于绿色乌托邦的理论,试图论证这首摇篮曲实现了乌托邦的功能,它激发了凯特尼斯和其他反叛者的乌托邦想象,为一个正义、平等和自由的美好世界而战。它还假定,受三部曲最后一本书中催眠曲启发的绿色乌托邦社区的功能不是逃避现实的追求,而是作为全球资本主义时代的微观政治选择。
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