›› 2020, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (3): 89-92.

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Conflicting Ethical Identity and a Dilemmatic Ethical Choice --An Ethical Literary Analysis of Arrow of God

HUANG Hui, WANG Lei   

  1. School of Chinese Language and Literature, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • Received:2019-09-02 Online:2020-05-22 Published:2020-06-07

相悖的伦理身份与两难伦理选择 ——《神箭》的文学伦理学解读

黄晖,王磊   

  1. 华中师范大学 文学院,武汉430079
  • 作者简介:黄晖(1971—),男,华中师范大学文学院教授,博士生导师,研究方向:文艺批评;王磊(1994—),男,华中师范大学文学院硕士研究生,研究方向:文艺批评。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金重大项目“文学伦理学批评:理论建构与批评实践研究”(13&ZD128);国家社会科学基金后期资助项目《非洲文学史》(17FWW001)

Abstract: The novels of Chinua Achebe keep a record of secret history of African clan in the 20th century. He investigates the changes of the clan, especially the decline of rural ethics through the protagonists ethical identity, thus reflects the changes of the clan politics and social mechanism. This paper reads Achebes novel against the social background of ethics, religion and law when Africa was under the colonial force. Through the close reading and the historical context of text, Ezeulus ethical tragedy is analyzed from the perspective of identity crisis, thus the ethical mechanism of African clan is illuminated.

Key words: Arrow of God, identity crisis, ethical dilemma, ethical choice, ethical expression

摘要: 阿契贝的小说《神箭》记录了20世纪非洲部族社会的“秘史”。作家侧重于从人物的伦理身份出发,通过展现其被疏离的过程,考察部族社会的变迁,尤其是乡村伦理的衰微,进而折射出部族政治和社会机制的变化。结合小说创作的历史语境,以“身份危机”为切入视角,探究伊祖鲁的伦理悲剧,继而阐明该部作品所隐含的非洲部族社会的伦理机制。

关键词: 《神箭》, 身份危机, 伦理两难, 伦理选择, 伦理表达