Love Events in Gurnah’s Desertion


Journal of Literary Writing and Evaluation

JLWE, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2025, pp.201-210.

Print ISSN: 3078-8129; Online ISSN: 3104-5073

Journal homepage: https://www.lwejournal.com

DOI: Https://doi.org/10.64058/JLWE.25.2.03



古尔纳《遗弃》中的爱之事件

                                                                                              

郝文萱 (Hao Wenxuan)

 

摘要:阿兰·巴迪欧将爱与政治、科学、艺术视作真理的四个前提。爱促生的革命性合体最终产生了一个不能被既往知识体系所识别和处置的不可辨识的集合,最终导向了真正的断裂性的事件。本文借助巴迪欧的爱之事件理论,以古尔纳小说《遗弃》中蕾哈娜与皮尔斯具有颠覆性的爱之事件为核心,围绕事件本身以及拉希德对其想象的断裂,论述了爱之事件是如何以其建构和生成着的生命,颠覆社会大写的一的逻辑,并在忠实于爱的原则上,创造出新的世界的过程。

关键词: 古尔纳《遗弃》巴迪欧事件创基性

作者简介:郝文萱,南京大学外国语学院博士研究生,研究方向:现当代英美文学。电邮:selene20000@126.com

 

Title: Love Events in Gurnah’s Desertion

Abstract: Alain Badiou regards love, together with politics, science and art, as the four premises of truth. The revolutionary ensemble that love promotes ultimately produces an unrecognisable collection that cannot be identified and disposed of by previous systems of knowledge, and ultimately leads to a truly ruptural event. Drawing on Badiou’s theory of the event of love, this paper centres on the subversive event of love between Rehana and Pearce in Gurnah’s novel Desertion and the rupture of Rashid’s imagination of it, discusses how the event of love, with its constructed and generative life, subverts the logic of the One and creates a new world in fidelity to the principle of love.

Keywords:  Gurnah; Desertion; Badiou; Event; Inceptuality

Author Biography: Hao Wenxuan, Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing University. Research Area: Modern and Contemporary British and American Literature. Email: selene20000@126.com.



 Received: 8 Sep 2025 / Revised: 8 Sep 2025 / Accepted: 1 Nov 2025 / Published online: 30 Nov 2025 / Print published: 30 Dec 2025.