论《我的位置》与《别把你的爱带到城里去》中土著民族的自我表现

The Aboriginal People's Self-Representation in My Place and Don't Take Your Love to Town

摘要: 在澳大利亚土著女性生命故事中, 《我的位置》和《别把你的爱带到城里去》有着举足轻重的地位。通过展示土著民族在当代社会的真实生活状况, 这两部作品都表达了对土著民族能否继续生存的关注, 评论界为此也常把二者相提并论。然而, 就土著民族的自我表现而言, 这两部作品实际上代表了斯图尔特.豪的“表现”理论的不同阶段, 存在较大差异。

Abstract: My Place and Don't Take Your Love to Town are two monumental works in Australian Aboriginal women's life story. By depicting the Aboriginal people's true life in contemporary society, both works show great concern for the survival of the Aborigines.And because of this, critics often assume that they are similar in every aspect.However, as far as the Aboriginal people's self-representation is concerned, the two books stand for the two different stages in Stuart Hall's "representation" theory, and thus have different characteristics.