ABSTRACT The presence in Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale of children, and of violence against them, has so far been little commented upon, as much commentary has focused on the film’s depiction of rape and colonial gender relations. Yet key plot points are articulated through violence against a child — and the exclamations at these points by the film’s antagonist, Lt. Hawkins, of “shut it up” and “I can’t stand the ... noise of it,” indicates a critical role played by representations of children that may be turned against colonial power. This article examines the-role of the child as a site of immanent critique of colonial violence in The Nightingale, in the context of the use of representations of childhood in settler-colonial film and culture more broadly.

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``我受不了它的声音''：詹妮弗·肯特（Jennifer Kent）的《夜莺》中的孩子形象和殖民主义批评

摘要迄今为止，在詹妮弗·肯特（Jennifer Kent）的《夜莺》中，关于儿童以及对儿童的暴力行为的评论很少，因为很多评论都集中在电影对强奸和殖民地性别关系的描写上。然而，关键的情节点是通过对儿童的暴力来表达的，而电影的对手霍金斯中尉在这些点上对“闭嘴”和“我受不了……的喧闹声”的感​​叹表示。由儿童的形象扮演的关键角色，可能会逆转殖民势力。本文在夜莺的殖民地电影和文化中更广泛地运用了童年的表现形式的背景下，考察了儿童的角色，作为夜莺对殖民暴力的永久批判的场所。