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摘要
《开放之城》(Open City, 2011)的叙述者朱利叶斯(Julius),在前景漫步、智力离题和次要人物的故事中,个人创伤记忆与动产奴隶制和奴隶贸易的痕迹和残余相结合,一直困扰着他。我对特朱·科尔小说的分析主要集中在飞行上,这是朱利叶斯的一种身心运动,他试图逃离与他的尼日利亚过去和大西洋世界的过去的联系。他强迫性的散步和世界性的沉思只能提供暂时的、临时的庇护。文本仍然纠缠于跨大西洋奴隶贸易和动产奴隶制的性别历史和反黑人遗产,以及朱利叶斯不仅作为证人和受害者而且作为肇事者的牵连方式。我认为,性别反黑人暴力构成了朱利叶斯叙事的模糊基础,而小说的过度分享和逃避的叙事技巧最终使其叙事性得以实现。
ABSTRACT While Julius, the narrator of Open City (2011), foregrounds walks, intellectual digression, and stories of minor characters, personal traumatic memories paired with traces and remnants of chattel slavery and the slave trade haunt him. My analysis of Teju Cole’s novel focuses on flight as a physical and mental movement that Julius performs, trying to flee from an association with his Nigerian past and the past of the Atlantic world. His compulsive walks and cosmopolitan musings offer only temporary, improvised refuge. The text remains caught in the gendered history and anti-black legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery as well as the ways in which Julius is implicated not only as a witness and victim but also as a perpetrator. Gendered anti-black violence, I argue, forms the obscured ground on which Julius’s narration is built, while the novel’s narrative techniques of oversharing and evasion ultimately negotiate its narratibility.