记忆是救赎的钥匙——《殿堂》中的诺姆之力与记忆主题探析

Remembrance is the Key to Redemption:Towards the Power of Nommo and Memory in The Temple of My Familiar

爱丽丝·沃克的《殿堂》探寻了记忆的打开方式及其救赎力量。在开启记忆的过程中,诺姆之力主要通过讲述故事的话语形式发挥了重要的作用,除此之外,另外两种诺姆形式——歌唱和舞蹈——对记忆的打开发挥着不容忽视的补充作用。值得注意的是,《殿堂》所散发的诺姆之力不仅对虚构人物的记忆打开发挥重要作用,还对真实读者产生巨大影响:读者通过见证小说人物打开记忆而发生的转变,有助于治疗他们在现实生活中的伤痛。同时,回归过去不仅体现在小说人物身上,还深嵌在沃克本人的创作宗旨上:正因牢记先辈遗训,自己才得以成长。

Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar explored the way to open up memory and its redemptive power.In the process of opening up memory,there are mainly such three forms of Nommo as discourse,singing and dancing.Among them,Nommobydiscourse in the form of telling stories not only plays a part in opening up the memory of fictional characters,but also exerts great influence on the flesh and blood readers:the transformation of fictional characters through opening up memory helps readers to cure their own pains in real life.Moreover,returning to the past is not only reflected in the characters in the novel,but also deeply embedded in Walker’s own creative purpose:it is because she learned from the legacy of her predecessors that she grew up.