论蕾切尔·库什纳《火星俱乐部》中的监狱地图叙事

On the Prison Map Narrative in Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room

蕾切尔·库什纳的《火星俱乐部》中不仅蕴含着层次丰富、气息独特的监狱地图,还以地图绘制的叙事方式关涉当代美国监狱发展史。叙事方式一方面采用粗粝的地理景观布局监狱地图,另一方面借助女性叙述者罗米的监狱行迹充盈地图细节,并在其氤氲气息的表象下隐藏库什纳对美国社会底层女性的同情与关切,从而深度剖析了女性犯罪动机,警示美国大规模监禁、毒品文化与性解放的社会危害性,彰显作家规劝女性需独立自强的良苦用心。

Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room not only contains well-arranged maps with distinctive air,but also reveals the history of contemporary American prison through the map narrative.On the one hand,harsh geographic landscape is used to lay out the prison maps;on the other hand,it is daily walking of female narrator,Romy,which records map details and hides author's sympathy and concern for women at the bottom of the American society in the unique air.This paper points out in-depth analysis of the motive of female crime,warns about the social harmfulness of Mass Incarceration,drug culture and sexual liberation in the United States,and highlights good intentions urging women to become independent and self-strengthening.