《一切皆被照亮》中的“后记忆”与犹太性

Approaching “Post- Memory” and Jewishness in Everything Is Illuminated

美国新生代犹太作家乔纳森·萨福兰·福厄的小说《一切皆被照亮》以一位美国犹太青年作家前往乌克兰寻根的经历为线索,借助魔幻现实主义重构个体层面的家族史和社会层面的犹太集体记忆。通过探讨小说中的"后记忆"与犹太性的关系,该小说体现了新生代犹太作家在后大屠杀时代继承创伤、延续犹太性,并以文学想象表现历史"真相"、照亮未来的不懈努力。

As a salutation to the Holocaust literature tradition, Jonathan Safran Foer＇ s first novel Everything Is Illuminated explores the issues of memory and Jewishness in the post - Holocaust era. Through a quest - for - holy - grail style process, the protagonist searches for the root of the family history, and the novel reveals how the new -generation Jewish American writer endeavors to inherit transgenerational trauma, transmit post - memory and endow the Jewishness with new implications. From the perspective of memory theories, this paper analyzes the relationship between post -memory, cuhural identity and Jewishness. It concludes that literary imagination helps ＂non -survivors＂ construct the postmemory, which is essential for the post -Holo- caust generations to pass on Jewishness with new illuminations.