叙事·回忆·创伤——解读《向苍天呼吁》的创伤叙事和创伤历史

Trauma in the Narrative and Memory in Go Tell it on the Mountain

詹姆斯·鲍德温在小说《向苍天呼吁》中采用了独特的跳跃性的叙事方式和回忆性叙事的结构模式,再现了黑人群体所遭受的文化、种族和心理等方面的创伤,通过叙事、回忆和创伤三者在文本中的交织架构出"此在"和"彼在"。詹姆斯·鲍德温强调直面创伤历史的必要性和可能性,揭示安度创伤历史对主体成长和继续当下历史和生活的深层主题和意义。

In Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin adopted the unique leaps of narrative and the structure of memory narrative to represent the cultural trauma, the racial trauma and the psychological trauma that the black community had suffered.In the context combined by narrative,memory and trauma, James Baldwin strongly stressed the necessity and the possibility to confront the trauma history in order to reconcile with the past trauma and to welcome the new future.