抵抗、诱惑与不安：“物叙事”视角下康拉德《黑暗之心》中的鼓

Resistance, Temptation, and Unease: Drums in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness from the Perspective of “Object Narration”

摘要: 21世纪的“物转向”思潮使得文学文本中的“物”逐渐开始得到学界的关注。文章以英国作家约瑟夫·康拉德的中篇小说《黑暗之心》为研究文本，从“物叙事”的视角出发，聚焦于小说中反复出现的鼓声，深入探讨鼓作为“文化之物”、“生命之物”和“本体之物”发挥的三种叙事功能及其传达的深远主题意涵。揭示出鼓在小说中不仅仅是背景音效，更是具有实体性和能动性的存在，在叙事进程中发挥了核心的推动作用，展现了非洲黑人文化对白人构建的文明秩序的抵抗性和对殖民者内心深处的欲望的诱惑性，暴露了殖民者面对殖民真相和道德堕落时内心的不安，从而深刻地揭示了人与“物”之间复杂的关系。

Abstract: The thought of “turn to thing” in the 21st century has gradually drawn academic attention to the “object” in literary texts. This study takes Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness as its primary text, examining the recurring drumbeats from the perspective of “object narration”. It thoroughly explores three narrative functions of the drum as a “cultural object”, “living entity”, and “ontological being”, along with their profound thematic implications. The research reveals that the drum in the novel serves not merely as background ambiance, but rather as an embodied and agentive presence that drives the narrative momentum. It manifests both the resistance of African Black culture against the Eurocentric civilizational order constructed by white colonizers and its seductive allure towards the colonizers’ inner desires. Simultaneously, the drum exposes the colonizers’ psychological unease when confronting colonial realities and moral degradation, thereby profoundly illuminating the complex relationship between humans and “objects”.