一个求索的灵魂——对哈利特·雅各布斯《一个奴隶女孩的生活经历》自传叙事的思考

An Exploring Soul——An Analysis on the Autobiographical Narrative of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,Written by Herself

自传是一种追求叙述过程中意义生成的阐释性、富有弹性和张力的文类。哈利特.雅各布斯的自传《一个奴隶女孩的生活经历》通过对叙事的伦理学突破,挑战传统伦理学的规范、挑战文化价值取向,为自己求自尊。巧妙移情于自传文本中的叙述者,消解了文学创作的基本原则和讲述生活事实时的自由表现方式间的冲突,达到对自己文化身份的建构。对传统奴隶叙事模式的超越和升华,渲染出自传文本更鲜明的理性色彩,张扬了作者智性的能力和个性自由的愿望。

Autobiography is an interpretative, flexible and tentative genre which presumes the meaning - generating in the narrative process. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs challenges the ethical norms of morality and cultural value by breaking through the narrative ethically. Empathizing with the autobiographical narrator, Jacobs deconstructs the paradox between the general disciples of literary writing and the free expression of narrating life experiences. Utilizing and rectifying the black narrative, she creates a new type of slave narrative with a subversive strategy, the result of which publicizes the rational feature of her autobiography and her personality.