摘要
当今的环境问题应从一种更宽广的地质学层面加以审视,以便发现特定叙事技巧如何助力读者更好地理解人类世所要求的叙述主体、时间、空间和叙述等概念。人类世叙事理论受杰拉尔德·普林斯构想的后殖民叙事学启发,所关注的问题与新时代普遍相关,诸如物质世界的叙述主体,与环境“慢暴力”相连的超长时距,表现海水上涨所涉的新空间范畴,以及人类作为物种共同行动进而导致全球变化所需的集体叙述。人类世叙事理论也思考在当前人类事实上“书写”地球的时代叙事概念本身应当如何变化。
In this essay Professor Erin James examines today’s environment from a broad, geologic scale to imagine how specific narrative techniques might help readers better understand conceptualizations of agency, time, space, and narration demanded by the Anthropocene. Taking cues from Gerald Prince’s imagining of a postcolonial narratology,she envisages a narratology sensitive to matters commonly associated with our new epoch, such as the agency of the material world, the extremely long durations affiliated with environmental slow violence, new categories of spatialization demanded by representations of rising sea waters, and the collective narration necessitated by a new conceptualization of humans acting together, as a species, to enact global change. Her discussion of an“Anthropocene narrative theory”also asks how our definition of narrative itself may change in an age when humans literally“write”the earth.
作者
肖旭(译)
Erin James;Xiao Xu(English Department,University of Idaho,Moscow,ID 83844,USA;School of Foreign Languages,Xidian University,Xi'an 710126,Shaanxi,China)
出处
《长江学术》
CSSCI
2022年第2期60-71,共12页
Yangtze River Academic
关键词
人类世
叙事理论
气候变化
Anthropocene
Narrative Theory
Climate Change
