论帕特·巴克战争小说中的创伤书写

On the Trauma Narrative in Pat Barker’s War Novels

被誉为"现当代重要作家"的帕特·巴克是当代英国为数不多以写战争创伤著称的女作家。通过对英国社会各阶层在一战、二战期间以及战后的心灵创伤的书写,巴克展现了一个独特的创伤世界,审视了战争蹂躏下的英国在文化、社会、家庭等方面存在的诸多问题。她的作品暗示了个体创伤记忆将最终成为一个民族的集体创伤记忆,并且无法被历史所抹去。本文将从历史书写、创伤记忆以及创伤传递这几个视角来分析巴克战争小说中的战争创伤叙事。

Pat Barker, an important contemporary British novelist, is one of the very few women writers who are famous for writing about war-engendered trauma. Through depicting the trauma from WWI, WWII and the post-war period as experienced by British people from different walks of life, Barker exposes a unique traumatic world and surveys the many problems tied to culture, society and family in war-ravaged Britain. Her novels suggest that individual traumatic memory will eventually evolve into collective traumatic memories of a nation, which cannot be erased by history. This article will explore the narrative of war-induced trauma in Barker’s war novels from the perspective of historical writing, traumatic memory and transmission of trauma.