图像语境下伊战小说《黄鸟》的视觉与伦理书写

Visual and Ethic Writing in Iraq War Novel The Yellow Birds under the Context of Images

凯文·鲍尔斯的《黄鸟》作为一部伊战小说,将美国后9·11文坛力作弃之角落的反恐战争带入读者的伦理视野。立足于后9·11图像语境,从视觉与伦理书写的双重维度出发,《黄鸟》利用颇具视觉隐喻性的文学叙事手法,讽刺与改写了诸多美国后9·11图像,昭示了图像与真实的彻底撕裂,颠覆了正义战争论的视觉假象与伦理幻影,最终将隐匿的他者显现于后9·11小说的文学想象中,将他者生命的脆弱性与可悲怆性带入人类战争的伦理反思。

As a novel fictionalizing Iraq war,Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds brings America s War on Terror back to the post-9/11 literary circle,and back to the readers ethical view.Based on the post-9/11 context of images,this paper,with its focus on the visual and ethical dimensions,uncovers that Powers satirizes and overturns the official visual means,which accordingly demonstrates the utter disruption between images and reality,and crushes the visual and ethical illusion of just war theory,finally visualizing the Other in the literary exploration of post-9/11 novels,and bringing the precarious and grievable nature of the Other s life into the ethical reflection of human wars.