汤亭亭《第五和平书》中的创伤书写

Traumatic Writing in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace

华裔作家汤亭亭晚年将笔触由原先所关注的亚裔女性身份、亚裔男性身份转向对全人类的关怀,其作品《第五和平书》通过对作家自身、虚构人物以及越战退伍老兵等的心灵创伤的书写,体现出她以文学为载体来表征创伤、见证历史、传达作家人文情怀的努力。文章旨在运用创伤理论,将《第五和平书》看成写作治疗文本,从文体、内容和主题等诸方面对作品中的创伤书写进行解读,以期在探索汤亭亭晚年思想和写作轨迹变化的同时,加深对后创伤时代文学治疗功能价值的认识。

In her later years, Chinese American writer Maxine Hong Kingston has shifted her attention from Asian American identity to universal mankind. In her new work The Fifth Book of Peace, Kingston examines her personal trauma, fictional characters＇ trauma and veterans＇ collective trauma, exploring the significance of literary writing in transferring traumatic experience to traumatic narrative, in bearing witness to history, and in extending a writer＇s humanistic caring to mankind. This paper analyzes the genre, content and theme of The Fifth Book of Peace from traumatic theory and perceives it as a text inscribes writing therapy, so as to get a better picture of Kingston＇s thoughts in her later years as well as the healing function of literature in the post-traumatic era.