艳异故事背后的文化迷茫——民国时期的印度游记《印度艳异记》

摘要

Fantastic Stories of India,a travelogue published during the Republic of China (1912-1949),recorded the writer's observation of Indian society.The account was almost identical in content to John Finnemore's works,A Peep of India and Peeps of Many Lands:Home Life in India,but the attitude about India was starkly different.This paper describes the way in which the writer of Fantastic Stories of India had a complicated and contradictory relationship to India,which reflected their ambivalent standpoint between the modem West and the traditional East.%民国时期的《印度艳异记》记录了作者对印度社会的观察,也大量参考了英国作家费纳摩尔(John Finnemore)的《印度一瞥》及《印度家庭生活》的内容,并与二者形成鲜明的互文关系.《印度艳异记》在所记述内容上虽然与后者大同小异,但在对印度的态度上却多有不同.其对印度的态度是复杂矛盾的,表现出在西方现代文明与东方传统文化之间的艰难抉择和矛盾的立场,在当时的中国是具有普遍性的.