消解权威的述说——论《所罗门之歌》的后现代叙事特征

A narration bereft of authority——A study on the postmodern narrative elements in Song of Solomon

与后现代的语境相吻合,托尼·莫里森1977年出版的第三部长篇小说《所罗门之歌》在叙事上体现出明显的后现代特征,如消解全知叙述者的叙事权威、解构圆形叙事的封闭结构、迂回叙事、颠覆西方《圣经》和非洲神话叙事框架。在解构传统叙事规范的基础上,托尼·莫里森摧毁了读者对权威的依赖和对终极意义的追寻,用后现代的叙事手法营造出一个意义从不确定,问题终未解决的虚构世界。

Published in the context of Postmodernism,Song of Solomon—the third novel by Toni Morrison,embodied itself with many postmodern narrative elements. For example,besides the narrative authority of omniscient narrator,the closure structure of circular narrative has also been undercut. It both employs the strategy of narrative regression and subverts the western biblical narrative and African mythic structure. By overthrowing the traditional narrative conventions,Toni Morrison destroys reader's dependence on authority and expectation of absolute truth and creates a fictional world with forever indeterminacy and everlasting unsolved problems.