从《唱吧,暴尸鬼,唱吧》探析沃德笔下的孤独与危机

Isolation and Crises: A Study of Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing

沃德在《唱吧,暴尸鬼,唱吧》里描写了美国南方的乡土人情、社会风貌和种族关系,剖析了人在种族主义环境里的焦虑和绝望,揭露了种族偏见的荒诞性。他对人际孤独的描写独辟蹊径,从少年疏离、父子不和以及兄弟姐妹阴阳相隔等角度探究了人际孤独与亲情危机的内在关联。此外,作者还从抑制自我、心理失落和友情失真等方面展现了现代社会的心理孤独,探究了希冀背离和唯我情结所导致的情感危机,揭示了不良人格把他人逼入自我封闭空间的社会悲剧。最后,沃德从死亡思索、身份危机和真我追求等方面揭示了存在孤独问题,表达了对现代人命运既忧虑又悲悯的本真情怀。

In Sing, Unburied, Sing , Jesmyn Ward delineates the rural custom, social scenes and racial relation in American South, dissects the anxiety and despair in racist milieu and reveals the absurdity of racial prejudice. He blazed a new trail in the depiction of interpersonal isolation, dealing with the child isolation, parent-son isolation and brother-sister isolation. In addition, he presents the psychic alienation of modern society from the angles of self-repression, psychic loss and friendship distortion, exploring the emotional crises resulting from frustrated expectation and solipsist complex and unveiling the social tragedy in which people are forced into a self-closed space by a bad personality. Finally, he discloses the existential problems from such aspects as meditation on death, identity crisis and a pursuit of actual self, conveying his true concern and compassion for human destiny in the modern world.