在迷失中寻找方向--《石乡行》中的文学绘图

Finding Directions in Disorientation:The Literary Cartography in Journey to the Stone Country

《石乡行》是澳大利亚作家亚历克斯·米勒的一部和解小说。有别于其他和解小说的书写形式,作者通过“文学绘图”的方式打破白人与土著之间的隔阂,表达了当代澳大利亚白人社会寻求与土著民族和谐相处的愿望。小说中的“文学绘图”主要表现为地理绘图、文化绘图与认知绘图三个层面,从整体和地方、有形和无形、个体和群体的角度摹写土著社会文化和现实困境,增进白人与土著之间的交流与理解,帮助澳大利亚人直面历史和过往,在“想象的绘图”中克服集体意识中的错位感及存在焦虑感。

Journey to the Stone Country is a reconciliation novel by Australian author Alex Miller.Unlike other forms of reconciliation novels,the author bridges the gap between the whites and indigenous people through Literary Cartography,expressing the desire of contemporary Australian white society to seek harmonious coexistence with indigenous people.The Literary Cartography in this novel is mainly manifested at three levels:geographical cartography,cultural cartography and cognitive cartography.It depicts the cultural and practical difficulties of the indigenous society from three perspectives of the whole and parts,tangibility and intangibility,individual and group,which enhances the communication and understanding between white people and indigenous people.It can also help Australians to directly face the history and the past and overcome the sense of dislocation and anxiety in the society through the"imaginative cartography".