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牙买加裔当代英国小说家安德里娅·利维的历史小说《小岛》与《长歌》分别选取了20世纪40年代二战前后和19世纪30年代奴隶制废除前后这两个具有转折意义的历史节点,通过历史再现,寻觅、挖掘那些被湮没的历史和声音,探讨了帝国中心和边缘两个“接触区”内英国和牙买加“你中有我、我中有你”的复杂关系和无法割裂的历史联系。这种历史书写指向的是殖民主义意识形态和种族歧视依然严重的英国社会现实,试图打破所谓纯粹的“英国性”的神话,建构一种以混杂性、多元性和融合性为核心特征的英国文化身份。
The historical novel “Islet” and “Long Song”, by contemporary Jamaican novelist Andrea Levi, respectively select the two turning points of significance before and after the abolition of slavery in 1940s and 1930s respectively Through the historical reappearance, searching and excavating those annihilation history and voices, this paper explores the complexities between the center of the empire and the two “contact areas” in Britain and Jamaica, “you have me, you have me” Relationships and unbreakable historical ties. This historical writing points to the reality of British society, where colonial ideology and racial discrimination are still serious. It attempts to break the myth of so-called pure “British character,” and to construct a society characterized by heterogeneity, pluralism and integration British cultural identity.