Abstract:

This article argues that an ethos of resistance permeates Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness and develops a feminist-historical lens to read the novel as a social critique of wartime myths around collaboration and resistance. Resistance operates at the level of plot and thematically; it also marks the novel’s form; and it describes the book’s status within scholarship, as it straddles traditional timeframes and schools of criticism. The article excavates the novel’s major preoccupations with ruins as sites of resistance to consensus, and collaboration as a problematic but plausible means of wartime survival under occupation. Macaulay’s novel ‘makes history’ in all senses of the phrase: it looks back on the recent past to capture a liminal moment in British history before it solidifies into myth; it reflects in fictional form real tensions in postwar society; and it provides today’s readers with a complex understanding of a period still easily reduced to clichés.

摘要：

这篇文章认为，一种抵抗精神渗透到麦考利的《世界我的荒野》中并开发了一种女权主义历史视角来阅读这部小说，作为对围绕合作和抵抗的战时神话的社会批判。抵抗在情节和主题层面上运作；也标志着小说的形式；它描述了这本书在学术界的地位，因为它跨越了传统的时间框架和批评流派。这篇文章挖掘了小说的主要关注点，即废墟是反对共识的场所，合作是占领下战时生存的一种有问题但看似合理的手段。麦考利的小说在所有意义上都“创造了历史”：回顾最近的过去，捕捉英国历史上的一个临界时刻，然后才固化为神话；它以虚构的形式反映了战后社会的真实紧张局势；