孟克里夫的通俗鬧劇與英國作品中的印度

Moncrieff's Melodrama and British Representation of India

10.29737/SJFLL.201003.0002

黃淨慧(Jing-Huey Hwang)

通俗鬧劇 ； 寡婦自焚殉夫 ； 女嬰殺害 ； 魯賓遜 ； 東方主義 ； 浪漫時期劇場 ； melodrama ； sati suttee ； female infanticide ； Robinson Crusoe ； Orientalism ； omantic theatre

東吳外語學報

30期（2010 / 03 / 01）

19 - 38

英文

本文檢視威廉•孟克里夫「豪華浪漫的通俗鬧劇」《恆河的大瀑布》(1823)及當時的文學中所提到的寡婦自焚殉夫和殺害女嬰等印度風俗。本文指出，雖然孟克里夫附和當時英國普遍的看法，把這些印度風俗歸咎於婆羅門祭司邪惡的影響，如此一來可謂體現薩伊德所說的東方主義態度，但身為不被上流社會接納的雇傭作家，孟克里夫卻也藉由不合法、非正統的戲劇形式，透過以魯賓遜為藍本的角色傑克，詼諧的點出帝國主義浮誇的一面。

This paper examines sati and female infanticide as presented in William Moncrieff's ”Grand Romantic Melo-Drama” The Cataract of the Ganges (1823) alongside the works of his contemporaries. This paper maintains that, while largely upholding his contemporaries' ideas about the insidious influence of Brahmins and therefore perpetuating, in Edward Said's influential term, an Orientalist attitude toward Hindu civilization, Moncrieff's choice of the ”illegitimate” theatrical mode of melodrama, possibly as a result of his social status in Britain as a Grub Street writer, teasingly draws attention to the pomp of empire via the Robinsonade figure Jack.

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