摘要
《林肯在中阴界》通过聚焦于一群停留在中阴界的亡魂来编写美国总统林肯和南北内战的故事,表现出对暴力与死亡特殊的历史意识。小说在叙事上以夸饰死亡来强调历史超越理性认知的不可再现性与无逻辑性,又以对死者私人意识和个体死亡经验的重视重建了现实主义对"人"的关注。作者不仅继承了后现代颠覆传统,更游走于讽刺与诚恳的叙事态度之间,以死亡叙事在诗学层面上再次概念化了美国历史,并于奇幻性与合理性之间取得了一种基于张力的平衡,是对美国国家统一神话的晚期后现代式重写,具有明确的政治指涉。
George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo,which focuses on a group of ghosts who stay in the Bardo to tell the story of American President Lincoln and the Civil War,manifests the novelist’s unique historical consciousness of violence and death.By exaggerating death,the novel emphasizes the unrepresentability and illogic of history,which goes beyond rational cognition,but its emphasis on personal consciousness and individual experience also indicates Saunders’s realist concerns for humanity.Following the subversive postmodern tradition and wandering between satire and sincerity in narration,the novel re-conceptualizes American history at the poetic level,maintains a balance between fantasy and rationality in historical writing,and rewrites the American myth of a unified nation both with postmodern techniques and clear political implications.
作者
董雯婷
Dong Wcnting(the School of Chinese Language and Literature in Northwest University,Xi'an,China,710069)
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2021年第3期21-28,共8页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
陕西省教育厅2019年度专项科学研究计划(19JK0818)
2019年度西北大学国家社科基金一般孵化项目(19XNFH021)
西北大学科研启动经费(338050055)资助。
