摘要
20世纪50年代的罗森堡案件对美国冷战时期的政治生态带来了深远影响。许多美国作家着墨于这件富有争议性的事件,意图通过文学再现透视官方叙事。多克托罗作为一名“激进的犹太人文主义者”,通过其含混的文学语言表达了他对事件独特深刻的反思。论文指出,作为“创伤小说”的《但以理书》从“老左派”和“新左派”两代人的创伤记忆入手,巧妙融合历史真实与想象构思,聚焦、放大事件内在的精神脉络,指明语言的“伪文献”实质及其所具有的双重力量:“自由力量”和“政权力量”,进而证明多克托罗的所秉持的观点:小说不仅和政治相关也具有艺术复杂性。而作家的文学再现成为干扰或者拆解其中“政权力量”,进而解构美国神话的手段,给读者带来深刻的历史反思。
The Rosenberg Case in the 1950s has had a profound impact on the political environment during the American Cold War period.Many American writers focus on this controversial case to look through the official narrative by means of literary representation.E.L.Doctorow,as a“radical,Jewish humanist”,expresses his unique and penetrating reflection on this case with his ambiguous literary expression.It is stated that The Book of Daniel,as what has been termed a“trauma novel”,makes the inner spiritual sequence of the case focalized and amplified,skillfully fusing the authenticity of history and fictionality of imagination by discovering the traumatic memory of both the“old leftists”and the“new leftists”,then further demonstrates the false nature of language and its double power:power of freedom and power of regime,which verifies Doctorows view that a fiction is both related to politics and endowed with artistic complexity.As a result,writersliterary representation will serve as a way to interfere and dissemble the power of regime and to deconstruct the American myth,which brings about deep and thought-provoking historical reflection to readers.
出处
《英美文学研究论丛》
2023年第1期55-69,共15页
English and American Literary Studies
基金
子课题负责人的国家社科基金重大专项项目(21VGQ09)的阶段成果。
关键词
多克托罗
《但以理书》
文学再现
伪文献
历史反思
E.L.Doctorow
The Book of Daniel
literary representation
false document
historical reflection
