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本文旨在对乔治·奥威尔的小说《缅甸岁月》进行后殖民主义解读。本文认为,《缅甸岁月》是一部由人物主导的小说,书中作者并未对英国殖民历史以及故事发生当时的社会环境进行阐述。这样安排的目的是尽量减少读者的偏见,使其在不了解历史背景的情况下,仅仅依据小说中人物的话语及行为形成自己对殖民体系以及对两种文化优劣势的看法。结局中缅甸地方官U Po Kyin最终棋高一步,智胜那些自认为更加优越的英国人,也印证了殖民体系自身的缺陷。
This article aims to make a postcolonial interpretation of George Orwell’s novel Burmese Years. This paper argues that “Burma’s Years” is a character-led novel, in which the author does not elaborate on the history of British colonialism and the social environment at the time of the story. The purpose of such an arrangement is to minimize the bias of the reader so that he can form his own opinion of the colonial system and the strengths and weaknesses of the two cultures based solely on the words and actions of the characters in the novel without understanding the historical background. In the end, U Po Kyin, a local Burmese official, finally took a step forward and outwitted those British who considered themselves more superior, confirming the deficiencies of the colonial system itself.