创伤的视觉阐释:《A.D.》与后卡特里娜时代的新奥尔良

Visual Interpretation of Trauma:A.D. and New Orleans in Post-Katrina Era

图像小说《A.D.:洪水之后的新奥尔良》是纽费尔德(Josh Neufeld)创作的一部关于卡特里娜飓风的历史叙事作品。小说在画面性与飓风的公共记忆之间讲述飓风亲历者的故事,挑战了有关卡特里娜的视觉档案资料,以非虚构作品的形式在视觉上客观再现了创伤现实经历。同时,纽费尔德将卡特里娜事件作为解读他者遭遇创伤的伦理框架,其间交织着诸如种族、地域等复杂社会问题,邀请读者持续不断地参与其中,解读城市文化内涵并采取行动。

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge( 2008) is a non-fiction graphic novel created by Josh Neufeld. It provides a historical representation of hurricane Katrina,narrating stories based on personal experience and public memory by a graphic form. While challenging visual archive of Katrina,A. D. explores a way of neutral presentation of personal traumatic experience. Moreover,natural disaster,providing an ethical framework to understand other’s traumatic experience,is intertwined with complicated social problems including race and place,which requires an enduring participation of the readers to interpret ethical significance and cultural reference of the city.