《八月之光》中“圆形”空间实践与南方探索

The“Circular”Spatial Practice and the Exploration of the South in The Light in August

小说地理的绘制想象与小说的空间创作有着重要的关联,它能够帮助我们发现文学研究中被掩盖的东西,以及空间是怎样引起故事与小说中的情节的。在“圆形”的空间运动中,“此刻”的“存在”密切联系在一起共同构成了人类对生存意义及价值的探索。在《八月之光》中,福克纳不仅借助克里斯默斯的“圆形”空间实践展现了他对南方和美国种族冲突的戏仿;而且他还借助克里斯默斯在“圆形”空间实践中的内心自我在种族身份认同上的矛盾与冲突,艺术地展现了在20世纪美国国家民族化与一体化的发展与形成的背景下,不同肤色的人种在现实生存空间下的国家民族身份认同的矛盾与冲突。在《八月之光》的创作中,福克纳借助人物的空间移动展现了他对南方问题的探索和对艺术的建构。

The drawing and imagination of novel geography are closely related to the spatial creation of novels,as they can help us discover the hidden things in literary research and how space triggers the plot of stories and nov-els.In circular spatial movement,the“existence”and the“present”are closely connected,which constitute the hu-man exploration of the meaning and value of survival.In The Light in August,Faulkner not only shows his parody of the South and the ethnic conflicts in the OS,but also comprehensively shows his understanding and artistic con-struction of the ethnic conflicts in the United States through the“circular”space practice of Christmas.Moreover,with the help of the conflicts of Christmas’racial identity,Faulkner artistically demonstrates the conflicts of na-tional identity of people in different colors under the background of American nationalization and integration in the 20th century.In The Light in August,Faulkner uses the spatial movement of characters to demonstrate his explora-tion to the Southern problems and construction of art.