创伤叙事视角下《无声告白》中自我救赎类型研究

Analysis of the Characters′Trauma Narration and Self Salvation in Everything I Never Told You

伍绮诗的小说《无声告白》是一部中美跨族裔婚姻悲剧,主要记录了这一跨族裔家庭的创伤和自我救赎经历,呈现了华裔男性詹姆斯·李的种族创伤、白人女性玛丽琳的性别创伤及其混血子女莉迪亚的代际创伤,引导读者去感悟跨族裔家庭成员不可言说的内心创伤和不断抗争的疗伤之旅。作者对《无声告白》中主要人物的创伤叙事与自我救赎进行探索,不仅可以引发社会对跨族裔家庭成员创伤困境的关注,还可以激发人们重新审视与思考全球化时代的代际冲突、种族关系、性别关系等社会问题,从而助力构建人类命运共同体。

Everything I Never Told You,a novel written by Celeste Ng,is a tragedy of a marriage between a Chinese-American and a native American.It mainly tells the traumas in this cross-race family and the experiences of self-salvation.It shows the racial traumas coming from James Lee,a male of Chinese descent,the gender of Marilyn,a white female,and the generation gap of their mixed-race daughter Lydia.It guides readers to understand the processes of being hurt unspeakably in their hearts and the healing journey through constant fights for the family members.The exploration of the traumas and self-salvation of the main characters in Everything I Never Told can not only draw the attention of society to the struggles of the members in the cross-race families,but also encourage people to re-examine and reconsider the social issues in the era of globalization,such as generation gap,race,gender,etc.So it can help to build up a community with a shared future for mankind.