《无声告白》中的童年创伤与复原

Childhood Trauma and Recovery in Everything I Never Told You

《无声告白》是美国华裔女作家伍绮诗的第一部长篇小说,耗时六年完成。创伤是该小说的一大主题,书中每个人物背后都有着不可言说的伤痛,而童年创伤更是华裔小说创伤书写中最重要的组成部分,因为大部分华裔作家都或多或少有过童年创伤的经历。因此,本文拟从创伤理论的视角出发分析小说中的两位主人公在童年时期经历的创伤,探讨他们童年创伤形成的主要原因、童年创伤对他们成长的影响以及他们是如何实现创伤复原的。

Everything I Never Told You is a novel written for six years by a Chinese American woman writer,Celeste Ng.Trauma is one of the major themes of the novel,and each character in the novel has an unspeakable pain behind him or her.Most Chinese American writers have certain unfortunate experiences in childhood,so childhood trauma is one of the most important components of trauma writing in Chinese American novels.Applying the theory of trauma,this paper analyzes the two main characters’traumatic experiences in childhood and discusses the main causes and impacts of their childhood trauma as well as ways for recovery from their traumatic experiences.