摘要
《地之国》是美国作家约瑟夫·奥尼尔新近创作的小说,因对"9·11"之后当代人情感的深刻领悟和细微把握而赢得广泛赞誉。小说通过多重记忆建立的叙事时空不但有助于描摹普通人的心理状态而且还有利于阐发对自我、文化身份等问题的深入思考。本文运用记忆理论对《地之国》进行解读,着重考察该作品如何融个人记忆与自我审视、文化记忆与身份认同于一体,进而以一种跨文化视野书写"9·11",并认为小说《地之国》蕴涵着深刻的历史文化内涵,参与了对全球性暴力事件的记忆建构与评判性反思。
Joseph O'Neill's latest novel Netherland has been highly acclaimed for its profound comprehension and subtle revelation of the human mind in the post-9/11 era.The exquisite composition of multiple memory writings in the novel facilitates not only a vivid description of everyman's mentality,but a deep understanding of self and identity as well.This paper draws on memory theories to analyze Netherland in the hope of exploring the interrelationship between individual memory and self interrogation,cultural memory and identification.Netherland,as is argued,is a type of cross-cultural writing of post 9/11 that functions as a text of collective memory deeply embedded in a historical and cultural sense and participates in memory construction of global violence and its critical introspection.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2012年第4期87-96,共10页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
教育部人文社科项目"当代美国后‘9.11’小说叙事伦理研究"(11YJC752014)的阶段性成果
吉林省社科项目(项目编号:2012B40)
吉林省教育厅"十一五"社会科学研究项目(项目编号:吉教科文合字[2010]第347号)资助
