2003年获诺贝尔文学奖的南非作家J·M·库切在其自传式小说《青春》中,描述了主人公作为“边缘人”和“他者”的两难处境和矛盾心理,揭露了残酷的种族隔离制度及其带来的不良后果,同时讽刺了欧洲对非洲的长期殖民占有。本文试图运用后殖民理论对《青春》进行解读和分析。 South African writer JM Coeche, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, described the dilemma and ambivalence of the protagonist as the “marginal man” and “the other” in his autobiographical novel Youth. Exposing the cruel system of apartheid and its negative consequences, while satirizing Europe’s longstanding colonial possession of Africa. This article attempts to use postcolonial theory to analyze and analyze “youth”.