数字化时代的创伤叙事——评《“9·11”之后的创伤诗学:数字化当下的创伤再现》

A Review of A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11: Representing Trauma in a Digital Present

美国“9·11”事件以来的创伤经验,已经不可避免地与当下全球化和数字化的媒体景观连结在一起。新的信息传播方式让创伤经验超越了不可言说的局限,使得情感沟通的过程性和对话性显得尤为重要。媒体的广泛介入,引发了关于创伤的虚拟性的讨论,并强化了民族主义主导下的集体创伤记忆模式。卡特琳娜·杜恩的学术专著《“9·11”之后的创伤诗学:数字化当下的创伤再现》分析了后“9·11”创伤叙事面临的挑战和契机,指出需要建立新的参数去理解创伤与创伤再现所涉及的文化要素,建立顺应时代发展的创伤叙事伦理和文学生态。

The experience of trauma has become inescapably entwined with current global and digital mediascapes since the 9/11 attack. Due to the new channels of information dissemination, trauma texts have transcended unspeakability to actualize empathy, processuality and dialogicity; and the extensive media coverage of the traumatic events urges people to rethink the virtuality of trauma experience as well as the collective cultural trauma memories catalyzed by nationalism. Katharina Donn’s book A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11: Representing Trauma in a Digital Present discusses the challenge and prospect of trauma narrative in post-9/11 context,and calls for an ethics of trauma narrative by setting new parameters for understanding trauma and its representations in literature.