杂糅视域下凯茜的生命伦理与科学选择
武汉工程大学, 外语学院, 湖北武汉 430205
| 摘 要： | 《莫失莫忘》是英籍日裔作家石黑一雄所著的长篇小说。小说中的克隆人被人类抚养长大，却不得不面临为人类捐献器官而死的结局。但对于克隆人在面对死亡时没有向主宰他们的人类发起反抗这一现象，小说并未给出解释。本文基于霍米•巴巴的杂糅理论，分别从自我、群体、社会环境三个维度分析小说主人公凯茜的身份杂糅与建构的过程，并讨论这一过程对凯茜拒绝反抗、接受死亡命运的影响。最终，凯茜以人类的心灵接受了自己身为克隆人的生理事实，构建并接受了自己的杂糅身份，她毅然赴死的决心更是表现出远超普通人类的高尚。克隆人与人类虽然属于不同的群体，但不可否认他们也因此生长于不同的文化环境中；尽管他们的外表完全一致，他们也发展出了各自的文化并相互影响。本文为克隆人拒绝反抗这一问题提供了可能的答案，也从克隆人的责任与义务视角为小说提供了新的解读。 |
| 关 键 词： | 石黑一雄; 《莫失莫忘》; 杂糅理论; 生命伦理; 身份建构; 身份认同; 科学选择 |
| DOI： | 10.57237/j.ha.2024.01.002 |
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收稿日期: 2023-10-17
接受日期: 2023-11-15
在线出版日期: 2024-03-11
Kathy’s Bioethics and Scientific Choices in Never Let Me Go from the Perspective of Hybridity
School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
| Abstract: | Never Let Me Go is a full-length novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. The clones in the novel were raised by humans but had to face the end of dying by donating their organs to humans. However, the novel did not provide an explanation for the phenomenon that the clones refused to revolt against the humans who dominated them when they faced death. Based on the concept of hybridity of Homi K. Bhabha, this paper will analyze the process of hybridization and construction of the identity of the heroine Kathy from three dimensions: self, group and social environment, and discuss the impact of this process on Kathy’s refusal to resist and acceptance of her death. As a result, Kathy accepted the physical fact that she was a clone with a human heart, constructed and acknowledged her hybrid identity, and her determination to die showed a nobility far beyond that of ordinary humans. Although clones and humans belonged to different groups, it was undeniable that they had grown up in different culture environments, despite their identical appearance, they had developed their own cultures and influenced each other. This paper brings a explanation to the question of the clones’ refusal to revolt and offers a unique interpretation to the novel from the perspective of the responsibilities and duties of the clones. |
| Keywords: | Kazuo Ishiguro; Never Let Me Go; Hybridity; Bioethics; Identity Construction; Identification; Scientific Choice |
基金
| 1. | 武汉工程大学第十五届研究生教育创新基金项目 (No. CX2023491) |
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