In the short story The Blood from Navel Orange,the orange base,similar to Jermey Bentham's the Panopticon,has witnessed the story between Huang A-xian,a Chinese man,and his white master Marie. Observed from the perspective of space, Marie, who has occupied the top of the pyramid of power, had A-xian's life in the palm of her hand and expelled all the buyers for the tree embryo from navel orange to es-tablish his identity of the strong. In other words, through Huang A-xian's life, Yan Ge-ling exhibited the structure of the power space in the orange base.%在小说《橙血》中,橙园——一个类似于边沁的"圆形监狱"见证了华人男子黄阿贤与其洋主人玛丽之间的故事. 从空间的角度看,玛丽居于橙园金字塔型权力体系的最高端:对内,掌控阿贤,尽显白人对华人的规训与惩罚;对外,驱逐所有的树胚购买者,以树立自己强者的身份. 作家严歌苓借黄阿贤飘零的一生展示了橙园这一权力空间的构造.
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