美国韩裔小说中的历史记忆与文化记忆书写--以安娜贝尔·金的《虎皮》为例

Historical and Cultural Memory Record in Korean American Novels:A Case Study of Annabel Kim's Tiger Pelt

美国韩裔作家安娜贝尔•金的小说《虎皮》,是一部集个体记忆和朝鲜民族历史集体记忆为一体的文化记忆书写。小说采用交替叙述视角和平行叙事结构,以男女主人公的个体苦难经历为线索,以20世纪朝鲜半岛大事件的时间和空间具体“位点”为民族历史的“记忆场”,以民族语言、谚语等作为文化记忆的符号系统,揭示作者通过个体创伤记忆、民族历史集体记忆与文化记忆书写,参与并进行自我民族“集体的认同”的文化记忆建构。作者的文学创作是对朝鲜民族集体记忆建构的一种尝试,对民族集体记忆的连续性、传承性建构的一种尝试。

Korean American writer Annabel Kim’s novel Tiger Pelt is a cultural memory record which incorporates individual memories and collective memory of Korean national history.Employing alternant narrative perspective and parallel narrative structure,taking the protagonists’ individual sufferings as the storyline,the specific time and space "coordinates" of major events in the 20th century Korean Peninsula as the "memory field" of the national history,and the native languages as well as proverbs as the cultural memory symbol system,the novel unveils the author’s participation in the cultural memory construction of the national "collective identity" through recording individual trauma memories,collective memory of national history,and cultural memory.This literary work is an attempt to construct Korean national collective memory,its continuity,and its inheritance.