从《街》探析佩特里笔下的心理叙事

外国文学研究 ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 110-118.

从《街》探析佩特里笔下的心理叙事

庞好农, 薛璇子

出版日期:2019-08-25 发布日期:2022-05-18
作者简介:庞好农,广东外语外贸大学外国文学文化研究中心教授,主要从事英美文学研究;薛璇子,上海大学外国语学院博士生,主要从事英美文学研究。
基金资助:
国家社会科学基金项目“非裔美国城市自然主义小说之性恶书写研究”（14BWW074）

Title: An Analysis of the Psychological Narrative in Ann Petry's The Street

Pang Haonong, Xue Xuanzi

Online:2019-08-25 Published:2022-05-18
About author:Pang Haonong is a professor at the Centre for Foreign Literature and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Guangzhou 510420, China), specializing in English and American literature. Email: dragren@qq.com; Xue Xuanzi is a PhD student at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University (Shanghai 200444, China), specializing in British and American literature. Email: meg1003@t.shu.edu.cn
Supported by:
“A Study of the Writing of Evils of African American Urban Naturalistic Novels” (14BWW074), sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 佩特里在《街》里通过对微妙心理的刻画,营造出斑驳迷离的心理空间,开创了一个独具特色的心理叙事风格。她以一个冷静旁观者的心态,写下她所能够看到和体悟到的哈莱姆社会现实和人间百态,通过记忆表象再现的方式来展现人的心灵轨迹。在佩特里笔下的视觉心象、听觉心象和运动心象里,生理欲望和金钱欲望的相互纠结使人的心理变得矛盾怪异,以此揭示了种族主义社会的荒谬性和非理性。情境心理中的恋物癖、事与愿违心理、心理冲突和臆想的相互作用,解构了美国黑人的情感心理状态、意志心理状态和动机心理状态,揭露了黑人在种族主义环境里的生存危机,阐释了情境力量场对人格和人性的强大影响力和制约力。

关键词: 安·莱恩·佩特里, 《街》, 心理叙事, 记忆表象, 心象

Abstract: With a masterful depiction of her characters' subtle psyche, Ann Petry creates a complex and changing psychic space and invents a unique style of psychological narrative in The Street. As a sober onlooker, she jots down all the social realities and human conditions she has witnessed and experienced in Harlem and exhibits the psychic paths of her characters through the representation of memory images. What the visual, auditory, and motion mental imagery in her work reveals is that the interlocking of physical and monetary desires makes people's psyche seem contradictory and abnormal, thus disclosing the absurdity and irrationality of a racist society. The interplay between the four aspects of the situational psyche, namely, fetishism, the adverse-fortune mentality, psychological conflicts, and delusions, deconstructs the mental state of the emotion, will and motivation of the black people in America, revealing their survival crisis in the racist environment, and articulating the tremendous influence and restrictive power of situational forces upon human dignity and human nature.

Key words: Ann Lane Petry, The Street, psychological narrative, memory image, mental image

庞好农, 薛璇子. 从《街》探析佩特里笔下的心理叙事[J]. 外国文学研究, 2019, 41(4): 110-118.

Pang Haonong, Xue Xuanzi. Title: An Analysis of the Psychological Narrative in Ann Petry's The Street[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2019, 41(4): 110-118.

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