摘要
本文将拉尔夫·埃利森的《看不见的人》与托尼·莫里森的《宠儿》进行对读,不是将后者视为前者文化资本的产物,而是将两者置于一个对话关系之中加以审视,试图论证:莫里森同样运用了调解和冥想,以爵士乐演奏的形式,开拓了一条通向洗清奴隶制时期"梦想之罪"所必须的民族反思的新路径。为探求在动荡的美国政治体中得以康复的切实可行的形式,这两部小说都将调解与冥想并置,以此激发读者对社会凝聚力的诸多特征作出思考。
This essay seeks to place Ralph Ellison＇s Invisible Man into conversation with Toni Morrison＇s Beloved. Rather than viewing the latter as the product of the former＇s cultural capital,it is argued that Morrison,in taking up the same issues of mediation and meditation,is in the way of jazz performance,a new approach to the kind of national reflection required to redress the ＂dream sin＂ of slavery. Both novels juxtapose acts of mediation against acts of meditation as they pertain to achieving viable forms of recovery in the vexed American body politic. In so doing,the essay argues,both novels allow readers to ponder the characteristics of social cohesion.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2011年第1期26-32,共7页
Foreign Literature Studies
关键词
政治体
调解
冥想
修辞
社会凝聚力
body politic mediation meditation rhetoric social cohesion
