论托尼·莫里森《天佑孩童》的叙事特色

A Study of Narrative Features in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child

莫里森在《天佑孩童》里把叙述角度和意识流能动地结合起来,采用多视角归一性聚焦、单视角发散性聚焦和单视角无焦点发散性视角等方式,揭露了人性的阴暗面,解析了现代人的心理困惑和生存窘境。她的偶然性命运反讽、反常性命运反讽和危机性命运反讽描述了社会现实中的善与恶,讽刺和调侃了人性的局限性。莫里森笔下的事件悬念、人物悬念和物件悬念,组成了一个相互交织、相互印证和相互作用的有机体,以令人耳目一新的方式表达了对美国当代种族问题和社会伦理问题的新认知。

Combining narrative angles with streams of consciousness dynamically,Toni Morrison adopts focalized multi-vision,un-focalized single-vision and multi-focalized single vision to disclose the seamy side of human nature and shed light on psychic puzzlement and dilemma of modern men in God Help the Child.Her contingent,unusual and crucial situational ironies are used to delineate the virtues and evils in social life,ridiculing and teasing the deficiencies of human nature.Devising a lot of suspense of events,characters and stuffs to form an interlocking,inter-proving,and inter-functioning entity,she demonstrates a fresh recognition of modern ethnic and ethical problems in America.