论《我们现在的生活方式》的艾滋病创伤叙事

An Analysis of the Trauma Narrative on AIDS in “The Way We Live Now”

苏珊·桑塔格是美国当代著名作家、批评家,她的名作《我们现在的生活方式》是让世界文坛瞩目的艾滋病创伤书写。小说通过缺席的叙述者、限知视角、证词式创伤叙述、并置的时空体等技巧,真实再现了一个小型社会群体感知、接纳、安度艾滋病创伤的生活图景,巧妙呈现出文本的链条式空间形式和令人动容的人文关怀。

Susan Sontag is a renowned contemporary American writer and critic. Her short story 'The Way We Live Now 'attracts great attention for its AIDS writing. This paper argues that the short story subtly presents a life picture in which a small social group perceives,accepts and recovers from the trauma caused by AIDS with the distinctive 'chain'spatial form of text structure and the touching humanistic concern,from the viewpoints of factors of the trauma narrative,namely,absent narrator,limited point of view,testimony narrative and juxtaposed chronotopes.