新世纪华文女性家族小说的不可靠叙述与叙事伦理

Unreliable Narration and Narrative Ethics in Chinese Women Writers' Family Novels in the New Century

在新世纪华文女作家的家族小说中,不可靠叙述是一个非常重要的叙事策略。其不可靠性表现为多种方式,既有叙述者和人物眼光导致的作品局部的不可靠性,也有叙述者兼人物视角构成的小说整体的不可靠叙述,显示出不可靠叙述的复杂性,对作品叙事伦理的构建起到重要作用,也给予读者伦理判断和审美判断更多的可能性。这一叙述策略在当下华文女性家族小说中,虽然大多运用颇为成功,但是仍有较大的发展和提升的空间。

Unreliable narration is an important narrative strategy in Chinese women writers' family novels in the new century.Unreliable narration comes in various forms.The switch of vision from the narrator's to the character'sperception may produce an unreliable local narration while the narrator's adoption of a character's perspective can render the narration of the whole piece unreliable.Narration is turned complex and this complexity is used to contribute to the narrative ethics of the work and to create more space for reader's ethical and aesthetic judgment.Unreliable narrative strategy is used very successfully in Chinese women writers' family novels while room is still there for further improvement.