难以言喻的困扰:托妮·莫里森《宠儿》中的语言、化身与鬼魂

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Connor Lifson
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重读托妮·莫里森的小说《宠儿》,本文探讨了莫里森的作品如何在语言的极限下,通过为读者提供一种体验自己记忆的方式,来表现重建时期与当今时代之间令人难以忘怀的联系。通过反复强调语言在表达创伤经历方面的不足,《宠儿》鼓励读者像书中的人物一样,超越语言,寻找一种无法形容的、具体的知识,以更好地理解奴隶制挥之不去的创伤。莫里森的“看不见的墨水”(invisible ink)概念指出,作者无法单独用语言捕捉生活经验,而必须由积极的读者来填补这一不可避免的事实。通过这一概念,本文提出了一个更大的论点:《宠儿》既是一种邀请,也是一种指南,让我们去阅读存在于小说之外、萦绕在我们世界本身的幽灵般的、看不见的历史墨水。
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An Ineffable Haunting: Language, Embodiment, and Ghosts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Rereading Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, this article explores how Morrison’s work at the limits of language performs the haunting ties between the Reconstruction era and the present day by offering readers a way to experience a rememory of their own. By repeatedly emphasizing the inadequacy of language in expressing traumatic experience, Beloved encourages its readers to, like its characters, look beyond language and seek out a kind of ineffable, embodied knowledge to better understand the lingering traumas of slavery. Through Morrison’s concept of “invisible ink,” which points to the inevitability that lived experience cannot be captured in language by the author alone but must be filled in by an active reader, this article makes a larger argument: that Beloved acts as both an invitation and a guide to read the ghostly, invisible ink of history that exists outside the novel, haunting our world itself.
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