媒介、行走和“假发”:《白噪音》中的日常生活实践

Media,Walking and“La Perruque”:The Practice of Everyday Life in White Noise

《白噪音》中充斥着对美国日常生活的细致描写,因此,主人公们的日常行为和实践不容忽视。根据米歇尔·德·塞托的日常生活实践理论可以从三个方面来分析主人公们在日常生活中的反抗,即阅读实践之媒介消费、空间实践之步行行为、转变实践之“假发”活动。结论表明,《白噪音》中的主人公们日常生活中的阅读、行走和“假发”活动具有抵抗意识,他们在后现代的生活中仍保持着自我意识和创造性。他们的日常生活始终充斥着抵制权威、规训和死亡恐惧的秘密和诡计,尽管收效甚微,但却使人的主体性得到强化,也让日常生活更加丰富多元。此外,正是这些抵制与反抗行为表现了德里罗对后现代社会的思考和批判。

White Noise is full of descriptions of American daily life,therefore,characters’daily behaviors and practices should not be neglected.This thesis,supported by Michel de Certeau’s theory—the practice of everyday life,will analyze the protagonists’practices through three particular aspects:reading practice(the consumption of media),walking practice(the walking activity)and diversionary practice(“la perruque”).It discovers the protagonists’creativity and resistance in their practices of reading,walking,and“la perruque”,thus presents a different everyday life which exposes people’s clandestine ruses to resist the authority,the regulation of established rules,and death fear.Although these resistances may have little success,the subjectivity of protagonists and the diversification of everyday life have been justified.In addition,it is those resistant practices that show DeLillo’s criticism towards the inhumanity of American postmodern society.