外国文学研究 ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 131-139.

• 美国小说研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

幻听与行动:奥康纳小说《暴力夺取》暴力主题新解

荆兴梅   

  • 出版日期:2020-12-25 发布日期:2021-02-05
  • 作者简介:荆兴梅,苏州大学外国语学院教授,主要从事英美文学研究。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社科基金后期资助项目“现代化进程中的美国南方女性小说研究”(19FWWB025)

Hallucination and Act: Reconsidering the Theme of Violence in O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away

Jing Xingmei   

  • Online:2020-12-25 Published:2021-02-05
  • About author:Jing Xingmei is a professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Soochow University (Suzhou 215006, China). She specializes in British and American literature. Email:1143941993@qq.com
  • Supported by:
    “Female Writings in American South during Modernization”(19FWWB025) sponsored by National Social Science Fund of China

内容摘要: 美国作家弗兰纳里∙奥康纳的小说《暴力夺取》最令人震撼的莫过于幻听与行动,两者联手引发激进暴力,推动整个叙事进程。它将幻听设置成激活主体意识的催化剂,让行动紧随其后发生,致力于抗争意识形态。然而,当行动以暴力形式出现,就演变成一把双刃剑,既可能造就革命主体,也可能催生极权主义者。通过杰恩斯和齐泽克的理论观照,奥康纳笔下的暴力主题超越了已有阐释窠臼,呈现出更加广阔的阐述空间。它强调幻听在当代文学中的重要地位,调整视觉独霸天下的格局,以此审视政治革命的复杂性,批判父权制和法西斯主义等大他者。这样一来,奥康纳写作宗教解读的思维定式得以突破,其当下意义和现实观照得以呈现。

关键词: 奥康纳, 《暴力夺取》, 主题, 幻听, 行动

Abstract: This essay argues that nothing in The Violent Bear It Away is more shocking than hallucination, act, both of which join forces to stir up fierce violence, propel the entire narrative progression. Hallucination is set up as a catalyst to activate the subjective consciousness, whereas act occurs right afterwards for a dedicated subvertion of ideologies. However, once action takes place in the form of violence, it transforms into a double-edged sword, which may either create revolutionaries or prop up totalitarians. Through an analysis based on Jaynes’, Zizek’s theories, we may see that the theme of violence in O’Connor’s novel breaks through the existing religious stereotypes, presents a much broader narrative space. It underscores the significance of hallucination in contemporary literature, revamps the structure in which vision dominates everything, thus assessing the complexity of political revolution, condemning patriarchy, fascism, “big others”. In this way, the mindset of a religious interpretation in reading O’Connor’s writings is shattered, her novel’s current ramification, its concern with reality are demonstrated clearly

Key words: O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away, hallucination, action

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