《午夜之子》中历史的文本化解读

On the Textuality of History in Midnight's Children

作为一部后现代主义、魔幻现实主义和历史书写的经典著作,萨尔曼.鲁西迪的《午夜之子》自出版以来获奖无数、载誉颇丰。小说较深刻地表达了作者具有颠覆性、反叛性的新历史主义历史观点,突出了文本对于历史的建构作用与具体的建构过程,实现了小说文本对于历史问题的追问与反思,其历史书写体现了新历史主义文本的历史化与历史的文本化特点。文章着重分析小说在历史书写中如何将历史文本化的过程,探究小说在书写历史时所持有的独特的立场、多种视角和多种叙述声音的书写角度以及小说重回忆和口述的书写方式,分析小说在具体情节安排上如何将历史进行个人化、多元化、碎片化、模糊化、魔幻化和消遣化的文本化建构。

As a classic fiction of postmodernism,magic realism and historical writing,Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children has received numerous awards and praises.The novel profoundly expresses the historical viewpoint of the author’s subversive and re-bLlious new historicism,highlights the construction and concrete construction process of the text on history,realizes the questioning and reflection of the novel text on historical issues,and its historical writing embodies the historicization of the newhistori-cist text and the textual characteristics of history.This paper focuses on the analysis of the process of the textuality of history in the novel.It explores the unique position and the special angle and multiple narrative voices of the novel in writing history,and the novel’s writing style such as memory and dictation.At tlie same time it analyzes the novels textual construction of personalization,diversification,fragmentation,obfuscation,magicalization,and recreationalization in the specific scene arrangement.