试论玛格丽特·阿特伍德《证词》中的身份叙事

Narratorial Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

玛格丽特·阿特伍德的小说《证词》是一部有关身份叙事的作品。小说以三位女主人公的叙述为主线,再现基列国的暴政,展现她们对身份的诉求。叙事声音背后折射出权力的交锋。在基列国原教旨主义意识形态构建的巨大话语场中,被压制的群体和个人努力突破重围,开启追寻自我的认知之旅。基列国的权力运作包括对身份的消除。而在当权者利用权力机器抹除个体身份之时,“血统谱系档案”的存在不仅保存人们的真实身份,还是战斗的武器和生存的策略。

Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is a novel about narratorial identity.The innermost workings of tyrannical Gilead are explored through the narrative voices of three women protagonists who courageously pursue their identity.The novel shows how the suppressed groups and individuals strive to expand their boundaries of cognition within the oppressive field of discourse constructed by Gilead’s fundamentalist ideology.In a country where authorities use power apparatuses to erase individuality,the Bloodlines Genealogical Archives help to preserve people’s true identity and prove to be a kind of survival strategy.