同情的谱系:在弗雷德里克·道格拉斯的叙事和托妮·莫里森的《宠儿》中找回母性

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P. Becker
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摘要:本文试图重新评估长期以来的说法,即道格拉斯1845年的自传将被奴役的妇女主要描述为受害者。在分析道格拉斯的《叙事》的基础上,我考察了托妮·莫里森的《宠儿》,并强调创伤理论对内战前同情惯例的贡献。这篇论文将传统上以截然相反的方式从女权主义的角度解读的两个文本进行了对齐。具体来说,我认为道格拉斯的叙述将读写能力的获得(通常被认为是奴隶人性的证明)置于家庭和母性环境中。在这种背景下,文本将女奴隶描绘成救赎的人物。在第二部分中,我认为莫里森的《宠儿》与内战前的《宠儿》相似,为阅读人物身体上过去苦难的铭文开辟了家庭和母亲的空间。在道格拉斯的《1845年叙事》中,《宠儿》运用并重塑了阅读和女性受害的比喻,表现了文本间的同情。
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Genealogies of Sympathy: Reclaiming the Maternal in Frederick Douglass's Narrative and Toni Morrison's Beloved
Abstract:This essay seeks to reappraise the long-standing claim that Douglass's 1845 autobiography presents enslaved women predominantly as victims. Building on the analysis of Douglass's Narrative, I examine Toni Morrison's Beloved and emphasize the debt of trauma theory to antebellum conventions of sympathy. The paper aligns two texts that have traditionally been read in diametrically opposed ways from feminist perspectives. Specifically, I argue that Douglass's Narrative places the acquisition of literacy, often considered the slaves' proof of humanity, in domestic and maternal settings. In this context, the text portrays female slaves as salvific figures. In the second part, I suggest that Morrison's Beloved, similar to its antebellum predecessor, carves out domestic and maternal spaces for reading the inscriptions of past suffering on the characters' bodies. In resorting to and reshaping tropes of reading and women's victimization in Douglass's 1845 Narrative, Beloved performs its own act of intertextual sympathy.
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Arizona Quarterly
Arizona Quarterly LITERATURE, AMERICAN-
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期刊介绍: Arizona Quarterly publishes scholarly essays on American literature, culture, and theory. It is our mission to subject these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, and contestation via critical readings of primary texts. We accept essays that are grounded in textual, formal, cultural, and theoretical examination of texts and situated with respect to current academic conversations whilst extending the boundaries thereof.
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