《宠儿》中黑人记忆的“现时化”

The“Presentization”of Blacks’Memory in Beloved

托利·莫里森的小说《宠儿》是伴随着人物记忆展开的,而小说本身也承载了关于黑人过去的民族记忆。从个人记忆到集体记忆的唤起,从个人遭遇到民族遭遇的共鸣,莫里森展现给读者的是黑人民族所遭受的屈辱与苦难,而她就是要让“历史重新记忆”。在当代,“重新记忆”不再只是记忆的“重复”,更重要的是实现记忆的“现时化”,即赋予记忆新的意义。小说《宠儿》不仅是对黑人悲惨遭遇记忆的保存与重现,它还试图将“现时化”的记忆传递下去,以激活黑人的民族文化记忆,保持对他们过去所受苦难经历的鲜活性,从而避免悲惨历史的再现。

Tony Morrison’s novel“Beloved”is developed with the memory of the characters,and the novel itself also carries the national memory of Blacks’past.From personal memory to the arousal of collective memory,from personal sufferings to the resonance of national sufferings,what Morrison wants to show to readers is the humiliation and misery experienced by black people,and she wants to make“Historical Re-memory”.Today,“Re-memory”is no longer just the meaning of memory“repetition”,but more importantly,it means the“presentization”of memory,that is,to give memory a new sense.“Beloved”,on the one hand,is a book which preserves and reproduces the tragic memories of Blacks,on the other hand,it attempts to pass on the memories in a way of“presentization”,which aims to activate the ethnic and cultural memories of Blacks and maintain their past experiences in a fresh way,so as to avoid the reappearance of their tragic history.