菲利普斯历史小说中的边缘叙事

The Marginal Narrative in Caryl Phillips' s Historical Novels

当代英国小说家卡里尔·菲利普斯在其所创作的历史小说中对奴隶贸易、二战中的屠犹事件以及战后加勒比海人民的移民经历进行了多层次与多维度的全景再现。他以区别于西方主流作家的视角记录了边缘群体的创伤历史。菲利普斯笔下的黑人形象完全颠覆了白人文学中对黑人的类型化塑造,揭示了种族屠杀给犹太人带来的巨大创伤,所刻画的女性人物打破了传统的男权意识对于女性形象的设定。菲利普斯将边缘群体的经历置于叙事中心,让失语状态下的他者发出自己的声音,将自己的故事写入历史。

British contemporary novelist Caryl Phillips delineates in his historical novels a multidimensional and multilevel picture of the slave trade, the Holocaust and the post-war Caribbean immigration. Different from the western mainstream writers, Phillips focuses on the traumatic history of the marginalized group. He subverts the stereotyped characterization of the black by Anglo-Saxon writers, exposes the unspeakable trauma of the Holocaust and breaks the patriarchal conception of female image. Phillips places the experiences of the marginalized group in the narrative center to give voices to the silenced other to write down their own stories in the history.