摘要
美国作家乔纳森·萨福兰·福厄的小说《剧响、特近》以2001年美国"9·11"恐怖袭击事件为背景,以儿童视角勾勒不同历史时期和文化背景下各色人物的创伤体验,谱写20世纪以来人类创伤的全景图。本文以创伤理论为视角,认为该小说以博物馆的呈现方式书写灾难,并从创伤人物、创伤书写和承载创伤记忆的图像三个"展区"来聚焦创伤,揭示创伤与记忆之间的张力,探讨创伤叙事中书写与沉默的悖论。
With 9/11 as the backdrop, Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close interweaves different traumatic experiences in various historical times from a child's angle and presents a panoramic picture of man-made trauma since the 20th century. Approaching the novel from the Perspective of trauma theory, this essay holds that the novel represents trauma in a museum-like style through three types of "ex- hibits", namely, traumatic characters, traumatic writings and memory-laden images, and manifests the tension between trauma and memory and the paradox of writing and silence in trauma narratives.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2012年第1期91-99,共9页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目"美国9.11主题小说研究"[10YJC752002]的阶段性成果
作者简介
作者简介:曾桂娥,上海大学外国语学院讲师,英美文学博士,加州大学洛杉矶分校访问学者,主要研究美国文学。