见证和记忆：《父亲们》中的叙述困境

Testimony and Memory:Narrative Predicament in The Fathers

艾伦·泰特的《父亲们》从兰西记忆的角度,回顾了快乐山庄园的毁灭所代表的南方历史创伤,反映出创伤见证者叙述的困境。创伤造成认知的困境和时间的错失,表现为兰西叙事中先行词模糊,语义歧义等现象;而创伤的延宕性引起了过去和现在的对话,造成了兰西叙事中时态的跳跃,以及大量存在的插入语等。兰西记忆的张力体现为个人记忆和集体记忆之间,记住和忘记之间的选择。通过对记忆碎片的编织,兰西的叙事重新构建了过去的历史,完成了创伤的见证。

Allen Tate＇s The Fathers is narrated from the angle of Lacy Buchan. It recounts the historical Southern trauma represented by the ruin of the Pleasant Hill, and reflects a narrative predicament of the traumatic narrator. Trauma results in a cognitive dilemma and temporal disorder which are indicated by the vague antecedents and semantic ambiguity in Lacy＇s narrative; while traumatic belatedness starts a discourse between the past and the present, and is represented by the anachrony in tenses and the use of many parentheses in his narrative. The tension of Lacy＇s memory vacillates between personal memory and collective memory, and between memorizing and forgetting. By stiching up the fragments of his memory, Lacy＇s narrative re-builds the past history, and works through his testimony of the trauma.