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在马拉巴曼广受欢迎的孟加拉语小说《Titas Ekti Nadir Naam》(1956)的批评中,对孟加拉低种姓渔民马洛人的生活叙事,他们独特的文化,他们不屈不挠的经济生存斗争,面对各种敌对势力拯救马洛文化的斗争进行了相当程度的讨论。1973年,Ritwik Ghatak根据这部小说改编了同名电影,在对这部电影的批评中,最重要的是Ghatak对农村Malo社区挣扎生活的处理,以及Ghatak作为导演的娴熟技巧。对种姓问题的关注较少,种姓问题以各种方式决定了马洛人的社会地位。通过对小说和电影文本的研究,本文表明,种姓制度如何在马洛人的生活世界中运作,以及种姓制度如何决定低种姓马洛人与-à-vis婆罗门和kayasas的社会地位,他们的高种姓对手在马拉巴曼的小说中得到了实质性的处理,Ghatak在他的电影中更多地关注马洛人作为个人和社区所面临的人类灾难,并试图记录马洛人的生活世界。正如广受赞誉的电影制作人马尼·考尔(Mani Kaul)所说,作为一种文明。本文关注的是这一种姓因素、马洛社区的灾难以及作为一个文明的马洛生活世界。
Exploring Caste, Catastrophe and Civilization in Mallabarman’s Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titash) and its Film Adaptation
In the criticism of the novel Titas Ekti Nadir Naam (1956), Mallabarman’s widely read Bengali novel, the life-narratives of the Malos, a Bengali low-caste fisherfolk community, their unique culture, their indomitable fight to survive economically, their fight to save the Malo culture in the face of all kinds of adversary forces have been discussed to a considerable extent. In the criticism of the Ritwik Ghatak’s eponymous 1973 film adaptation of the novel, the major importance has been given to Ghatak’s treatment of the struggling life of the Malo community in a rural set up and Ghatak’s mastery as a director. Less attention has been given to the caste question which determines the social position of the Malos in various ways. In examining both novel and the film text, this paper shows that whereas how caste operates in the Malo life-world and how the system of caste determines the low-caste Malos’ social position vis-à-vis the Brahmins and the Kayasthas, their high-caste counterparts are substantively dealt with in Mallabarman’s novel, Ghatak puts more focus on the human catastrophe faced by the Malos both as individual and as a community in his film, and has attempted to document the Malo life-world, as the acclaimed filmmaker Mani Kaul argues, as a civilization. This paper is concerned with this factor of caste, the catastrophe of the Malo community, and the Malo life-world as a civilization.