意识流·蒙太奇·悬念——解析《最蓝的眼睛》之叙事特色

Stream of Consciousness, Montage and Suspense： A Study of Narrative Features of The Bluest Eye

莫里森在《最蓝的眼睛》里把意识流、蒙太奇和悬念等叙事策略有机地结合起来,建构起与小说主题相适宜的叙事层面,开创了独具特色的当代黑人小说叙事风格。她描写的内心独白、内心分析和自由联想打破了传统时间观念和传统心理小说的顺时序,消除了逻辑时间界限,将感觉中的过去、现在和将来拧在一起组成主观心理时间,通过对深层意识的发掘来披露隐蔽的灵魂和内心世界。此外,莫里森通过蒙太奇手法把两个或多个空间并列或交叉起来,既营造了情节发展的张力,也揭示了人物过去心理经历与当前内心活动的内在关联。其笔下的书名悬念、人称悬念和伏笔式悬念是小说情节发展的指路标,使小说结构简洁而凝练,引导读者能动地参与到该作品的解读之中,获得审美的享受。

In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison makes a dynamic combination of stream of consciousness, montage and suspense in her narrative way, constructing appropriate narrative structures appropriate to the theme of the novel and creating a specific narrative style of contemporary black fiction. The interior monologue, inner analysis and free association employed by Morrison remove the traditional ideas about time and reverse the time order of traditional psychological fiction, getting rid of the boundary of logical time, combining the sense of the past, present and future into subjective psychological time, and revealing the bidden soul and inner world by carving out the sub-consciousness. In addition, by montage, Morrison juxtaposes and crosses two or more spaces to create the tension in the development of plots, demonstrating the internal correlation between the past psychological experiences and the present ones. The suspense of the novel＇s title, the suspense of personal pronouns, and the foreshadowing all serve as the signposts in the plot development to keep the fictional structures cohesive, attracting readers to read it avidly so that they can gain aesthetic amusement.