赤诚理想与非裔之歌:世界主义视域下《纽约巨像》中的共同体书写

Community Writing in The Colossus of New York:A City in 13 Parts from the Perspective of Cosmopolitanism

美国非裔作家科尔森·怀特黑德在多主题创作中注入世界主义宏大理想,呼吁人们从特定民族或国家的单一话语中解放出来,构建一种在世界主义主导下超越狭隘民族主义的共同体社会。非虚构小说《纽约巨像》锁定13幅纽约的城市画像,用建筑、人口和时间的流动性构建城市共同体,以插图和意识流碎片叙事为后记忆传播媒介构建命运共同体,呈现出后9·11时代人类对匿名消失在“破碎”的城市景观中的恐惧,传达了他消解西方中心主义,构建“世界大同,天下一家”的未来共同体社会的美好愿景。共同体在怀特黑德笔下超越了它自身的想象性,成为世界文学辩论场上一条不证自明的公理。

African American author Colson Whitehead embraces cosmopolitanism in his multi-themed writing,calling on people to liberate themselves from the mindset of a particular nation or country and build a community society beyond narrow nationalism.His creative nonfiction The Colossus of New York:A City in 13 Parts,which focuses on 13 New York City profiles,creates an urban community through the mobility of building,population and time,and build the community of shared future through the postmemory media of illustration and the stream of consciousness narration.Whitehead presents the human fear of disappearing in the“broken”urban landscape in the post-9/11 era and conveys his vision of deconstructing the West-centrism and constructing a community-like society of“one world,one family”.Transcending its imagination,community becomes a self-evident truth in world literature debates in Whitehead’s creative nonfiction.