《上升的一切必将汇合》中的白人创伤叙事

White Traumatic Narrative in Everything that Rises Must Converge

作为一种新兴的理论研究范式,创伤理论的兴起为文学批评提供了启发性的视角。然而,迄今的创伤叙事及创伤研究主要聚焦于创伤的被施予者一方,忽视了对创伤施予者的关注。美国南方作家弗兰纳里·奥康纳则有所不同,她在短篇小说《上升的一切必将汇合》中展现了20世纪中叶美国民权运动兴起及其后续影响的多元性与复杂性,探讨了美国社会转型对美国南方白人--既是种族问题的创伤施予者,又是创伤受害者--所造成的创伤体验,同时试图借助哲学与神学思想为治愈创伤提供解决方案。

As a new paradigm of theoretical research, trauma theory provides an enlightening perspective for literary criticism. However, the mainstream of trauma research always focuses on the discussion of the survivors of the trauma, and ignores the subject of it. Flannery O’Connor’s Everything that Rises Must Converge represents the diversity and complexity of American civil rights movement and its follow-up impacts in the middle of the 20 th century. Meanwhile it discusses the traumatic experience of "southern whites"- both the perpetrators of the race issue and the victims of it - during the period of social transformation in the United States, and provides a solution for white healing with the aid of philosophy and theology.