论洛丽·摩尔《楼梯口的门》中的创伤叙事

On the Trauma Narrative in Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the Stairs

《楼梯口的门》以远离纽约的中西部女孩柯尔津在20岁这年的人生故事为显性线索,以"9·11"恐怖袭击,美国攻打阿富汗,伊拉克等政治历史事件为隐性背景,将主人公的个体创伤叙事融于集体创伤的宏大叙事中。创伤叙事既有悼歌的凄婉恸人之美,又不失历史批判的深刻反思之悟。本文拟探讨作品中多维的创伤叙事,其中的隐喻言说预示了创伤,并体现了其悲情叙事风格;个体的创伤记忆通过自白叙事实现了创伤展演和创伤应对,转为叙事记忆;文史互文指涉下的种族、集体创伤进一步拓展了反思历史的纵向维度。

Lorrie Moore＇s novel A Gate at the Stairs, written in 2009, narrates Tassie Keltjin＇s life experiences at the age of twenty against a backdrop of historical events such as the 9/11 terrorist attack and American military and political interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Half-elegy and half-criticism, this post-9/11 novel addresses personal, racial and collective traumas by employing a set of narrative techniques, including metaphors that foreshadow trauma, confessional narratives that act out and work through trauma, and intertextualized histories of collective trauma.