历史的言说：黑人家族谱系的创伤记忆与再现

外国文学研究 ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (1): 138-146.

历史的言说：黑人家族谱系的创伤记忆与再现

林燕红, 林元富

出版日期:2018-02-25 发布日期:2022-05-23
作者简介:林燕红,福建师范大学外国语学院博士研究生,研究方向为英美文学;林元富,福建师范大学外国语学院教授,主要研究方向为英美文学。
基金资助:
国家社会科学基金项目“当代非裔美国涉奴题材小说研究”（13BWW063）

Speaking the Histories: Traumatic Memory and the Representation of African American Familial Past

Lin Yanhong, Lin Yuanfu

Online:2018-02-25 Published:2022-05-23
About author:Lin Yanhong is a Ph.D. candidate at College of Foreign Languages, Fujian Normal University (Fuzhou 350007, China). Her research interest is British and American literature. Email: lin.yanhong@foxmail.com; Lin Yuanfu is a professor of English at the College of Foreign Language, Fujian Normal University (Fuzhou 350007, China). His research interest is British and American literature. Email: yuanfulin@fjnu.edu.cn
Supported by:
“A Study of Contemporary African American Fiction of Slavery” (13BWW063), sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 《考瑞基多拉》、《双翼掩面》和《昌奈斯维尔事件》等三部当代美国非裔小说书写了三个受家族创伤记忆困扰的当代非裔美国个体。作者们打破线性历史叙事,还原了非连续性、碎片化的历史本真状态,外化了创伤的表现形式,使不可言说的创伤体验变得易于理解,深刻揭示了黑人家族谱系的历史记忆给后代带来的深远影响。面对创伤的再现危机,以厄莎、纳撒尼尔、约翰三位主人公为代表的创伤承载群体通过重审历史和自我之联系,对家族谱系的创伤记忆进行重构,最终完成了创伤的言说。

关键词: 考瑞基多拉, 双翼掩面, 昌奈斯维尔事件, 文化创伤, 再现

Abstract: Corregidora (1975), Two Wings to Veil My Face (1983), and The Chaneysville Incident (1981) are novels written by different authors, each presenting an African American person in contemporary American society haunted by traumatic memory of the family. In these texts, the narrative structures are deliberately broken up by the authors to restore the discontinuous and fragmented status of history, making the intangible traumatic experience comprehensible. In this way, the texts reveal the significant effects of the traumatic past of African American families on successive generations. Faced by the crisis of representation, the carrier group represented by Ursa, Nathaniel and John, reconstructsthe traumatic memory in familial history via rethinking of their relation to the history, eventually realizing the representation of trauma.

Key words: Corregidora, Two Wings to Veil My Face, The Chaneysville Incident, cultural trauma, representation

林燕红, 林元富. 历史的言说：黑人家族谱系的创伤记忆与再现[J]. 外国文学研究, 2018, 40(1): 138-146.

Lin Yanhong, Lin Yuanfu. Speaking the Histories: Traumatic Memory and the Representation of African American Familial Past[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2018, 40(1): 138-146.