柯林斯《饥饿游戏》中的青少年战争创伤书写

Teenage War Trauma in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games

青少年战争创伤是柯林斯科幻小说中反复出现的一个主题。在其经典之作《饥饿游戏》中,她不仅描写了青少年在战争中所受的种种创伤,还细致描绘了战争发生之前被统治区第12区作为创伤记忆者的集体创伤记忆,揭露了战争爆发时各区所受的战争创伤,分析了青少年面对创伤的疗救方法和效果,加深了人类对战争之残酷的认识,批判了战争带给人类的巨大危害,引起人们对历史、现状与未来的人文思考。

Teenage war trauma is a recurrent theme in Suzanne Collins’ s young adult science fiction. In her Hunger Games, Collins portrays the teenagers’ various sufferings in the war. With spotlight on the traumatic collective memory of Disctrict 12, the novel describes the war trauma of all the districts and analytically evaluates various methods of healing the traumatized teenagers. Aiming to deepen human understanding of the brutality of war, Collins criticizes the tremendous damage of war and inspires thinking on the past, present and future of human society.