帝国记忆场:论三部当代美国加勒比裔小说中的甘蔗书写
Site of Imperial Memory:On the Writing of Sugarcane in Three American Caribbean Novels
陈天然1
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摘要
甘蔗意象在当代美国加勒比裔小说中反复出现,表达为帝国文化记忆场,代表了主导权力框架和创造独立身份之间的紧张关系.从三部代表作来看,甘蔗意义的生产语境从殖民回望到后殖民对抗再到跨国互动不断进迭,呈现出一种渐趋开放的去殖民记忆空间:《锄骨》中的甘蔗记忆场表征了和奴隶制幽灵相联的一种根基性创伤,指向了当代创伤的殖民文化谱系;《奥斯卡》中的甘蔗记忆场再现了被遗忘的底层历史,为属下提供了发声之所却也限制了其发声;《息,望,忆》中,跨国社会场的双向求索使超越甘蔗暴力记忆、获得救赎成为可能.甘蔗书写提供了理解加勒比作家重新想象、配置声音和身份的动态时空表和演进图式.
Abstract
The imagery of sugarcane recurs in contemporary American Caribbean novels,ex-pressed as a site of imperial memory that represents the tension between the dominant power framework and the creation of independent identities.The context of sugarcane's significance evolves from colonial retrospection to postcolonial confrontation,and then to transnational in-teraction,presenting a progressively open decolonial memory space in the following three rep-resentative novels.The site of sugarcane memory in Farming represents a fundamental trauma linked with slavery simulacra,pointing to the colonial cultural genealogy of contemporary trau-ma;in Oscar,it revives the forgotten underclass histories,providing a place for the subaltern to voice out their experiences,while simultaneously imposing limitations on their expressions;in Breath,the two-way search in transnational social field makes it possible to transcend sugarcane violence memory and attain redemption.The writing of sugarcane offers a dynamic chronotype and evolutionary schema for understanding how Caribbean writers reimagine and reconfigure voice and identity.
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美国加勒比裔小说/甘蔗意象/帝国记忆场Key words
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基金项目
福建省社会科学基金一般项目(FJ2023B011)
华侨大学中央高校基本科研业务费资助项目(HQHRZX-202311)
出版年
2024
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