谭恩美《拯救溺水鱼》中的创伤书写与疗愈

Trauma Writing and Recovery in Amy Tan′s Saving Fish from Drowning

《拯救溺水鱼》是美国当代华裔作家谭恩美的第五部长篇小说。小说以幽灵叙事与多重视角相结合的方式,讲述了一群美国旅行者的离奇遭遇和文化冲突,而异域风土人情的背后隐藏着叙事者陈璧璧的创伤故事。文章立足创伤叙事视角,以叙事者的个体创伤为研究对象,通过文本细读,分析其死亡创伤、童年创伤、文化创伤的记忆与重演方式,并阐释其言说创伤、重塑自我的创伤疗愈过程,指出陈璧璧的创伤再现与疗愈是现代社会华裔群体创伤的写照。小说以创伤叙事方式来展现现代社会的创伤,揭示作者所寄寓的社会思考与人文情怀,凸显创伤书写在创伤愈合过程中的重要作用。

Saving Fish from Drowning is the fifth novel by contemporary Chinese American writer Amy Tan.It tells the bizarre encounters and cultural conflicts of a group of American travelers through a combination of ghost narrative and multiple perspectives.Behind the foreign customs is the traumatic story of the ghost Chen Bibi.Based on the perspective of trauma narrative,this article takes the individual trauma of the narrator Bibi as the research object,analyzes the memory and recurrence of death trauma,childhood trauma,and cultural trauma,explains her trauma healing process of telling trauma and reinventing subjectivity,thereby pointing out that Chen Bibi′s trauma reproduction and healing is a portrayal of the trauma of the Chinese community in modern society.The novel retells the traumatic agony in modern society in the form of trauma narrative,reveals the social thinking and humanistic feelings conveyed by the author,and thus manifesting unique function of trauma narrative in the process of healing cultural trauma.