《索引》中的历史记忆书写

The Writing of Historical Memory in Fihris

公元10世纪阿拉伯传记作家伊本·纳迪姆(■)编撰了一部题为《索引》(■)的书目传记百科全书;11个世纪后,美籍伊拉克作家西南·安通(■)仿效先辈,为伊拉克平民撰写了一部创伤记忆史,取名《索引》(■)。在该小说中,西南·安通采用历史记忆书写推进文学的反战实践,对历史主义的宏大单一叙事起到了一定的遏制作用。作者通过复原消失的话语、解构宏大叙事背后隐藏的权力,逆向梳理记忆碎片、打破历史主义线性时间,以一种弥赛亚的救赎精神将战争中的无名受害者从历史忘川中拯救出来,为文学中的历史记忆书写提供了一个全新的视角。

In the tenth century,the Arab biographer and bibliographer Ibn al-Nadīm compiled the encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist,and eleven centuries later,the American Iraqi novelist Sinan Antoon imitated his forefather to write a novel titled Fihris,which can be viewed as a history book recording the traumatic memory of the Iraqis.In the novel,Sinan Antoon enriches the dimensions of anti-war literary through the writing of historical memory,and his practice,to some extent,serves as a resistance to the hegemony of grand and monolithic narratives.By restoring the disappeared discourses,deconstructing the power hidden in grand narratives,untangling the fragments of memory backwards,and preventing the unknown victims of wars from sinking into oblivion in the river of history,the novelist Sinan Antoon provides a new perspective for the writing of historical memory.