后“9·11”美国小说创伤叙事的功能及政治指向

On the Healing Function and Political Consciousness of 9/11 Trauma Narratives in American Fiction

9·11后产生新的社会形态与个人及文化想象的互动,为9·11小说的创伤叙事文本注入了新的文化意义和现实意义。本文认为,9·11小说创伤叙事对9·11事件作为跨国的"疾病的隐喻"给予了充分再现,是对美国集体创伤及集体记忆的构建,同时9·11小说自身就是具有治愈功能的叙事,通过文本叙事伦理自身所具有的治愈功能实现。此外,9·11小说还再现了政治事件对个人空间的介入及其影响,在构建文化创伤的过程中,9·11小说家既无意识地迎合了美国的主流政治意识形态,也对美国政治进行了反思。

The American political and social landscapes after 9/11 interact dialectically with individual and cultural imaginary to produce new cultural meanings and realities. Representing the collective transnational trauma of the 9/11 attack, 9/11 trauma narratives function as a way of healing as well as an approach to constructing American collective cultural memory. With the assumption that public and political realities have intruded into private life since 11 September 2001, I argue that 9/11 novelists unconsciously conform to the prevailing American political ideology on the one hand and voice their own reflections on American politics on the other.