帝国的其他空间:J.G.法雷尔的麻烦中的殖民酒店

T. Parezanović
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本文以J.G.法雷尔1970年的小说《麻烦》中的酒店形象,更确切地说,是Majestic酒店为中心,为大英帝国的历史衰落提供了一个空间语境。为了建立“殖民酒店”的概念,这种特殊类型的酒店被理论化为一种虚构的手段,质疑殖民主义帝国项目的可持续性。考虑作为“殖民酒店”概念代表的“麻烦中的雄伟”的理论框架是基于福柯的异质拓扑,以及从后殖民研究中获得的阈限和错位的概念。将《麻烦》解读为爱尔兰麻烦的寓言,更广泛地说,是大英帝国解体的征兆。文章表明,该酒店以盎格鲁-爱尔兰大房子的历史概念为蓝本,提供了一个适当的背景,在这里可以对殖民话语的二元对立进行解构。虽然雄伟代表了帝国中心的镜像,或者更确切地说,是一个错位的中心,但它的毁灭是由于它对宏伟幻觉的持续和延续的倾向。同样,大英帝国拒绝承认二十世纪初的社会政治和历史变化,并否认在其牢固界定的结构之间存在间隙空间,从而不可避免地走向灭亡。
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Other Spaces of the Empire: A Colonial Hotel in J.G. Farrell’s Troubles
Abstract Focusing on the hotel imagery and, more precisely, the hotel Majestic featured in J.G. Farrell’s 1970 novel Troubles, this article provides a spatial contextualization of the historical downfall of the British Empire. In an attempt to establish the concept of the “colonial hotel”, this particular type of hotel is theorized as a fictional means of questioning the sustainability of the imperial project of colonialism. The theoretical framework for considerations of the Majestic in Troubles as a representative of the “colonial hotel” concept is based on Foucault’s heterotopology, as well as on the concepts of liminality and dislocation taken from postcolonial studies. Reading Troubles as an allegory of the Troubles in Ireland and, more broadly, a symptom of the disintegration of the British Empire, the article shows that the hotel, modelled after the historical concept of the Anglo-Irish big house, provides a proper setting where the deconstruction of the binary oppositions of colonial discourse can be played out. While the Majestic represents a mirror-image of the imperial centre, or rather a dislocated centre, its destruction is brought about by its tendency towards constancy and perpetuation of the illusion of grandeur. Similarly, the British Empire refuses to acknowledge the socio-political and historical changes of the early twentieth century and denies the existence of interstitial spaces between its firmly defined structures, whereby it inevitably meets its end.
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