《霍默与兰利》中的异托邦叙事
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摘要
在美国作家E.L.多克托罗创作的小说《霍默与兰利》中,科利尔兄弟的住宅是一个具有博物馆性质的偏离异托邦,铭刻着美国的文化记忆,而霍默的自传式写作则具有镜式异托邦的意义,是一次边缘话语向主流历史叙事突围的过程。《霍默与兰利》中的异托邦叙事特征既寄寓了作者对媒介传播伦理的思考,又有多克托罗对同一性思维的批判和对人类城市生态发展的担忧,表达了他对美国例外论的质疑。
In Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow, the mansion of the Collyer brothers as part of American cultural memory is a heterotopia of deviation. Meanwhile, Homer's first-person-narration functions like a mirror, also a type of heterotopia, and serves as a counter-narrative to mainstream historical narration. Doctorow portrays the Collyer brothers with their heterotopias to reflect upon the ethics of the media, to criticize uniform thinking and to express his worries about urban ecology.
In Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow, the mansion of the Collyer brothers as part of American cultural memory is a heterotopia of deviation. Meanwhile, Homer's first-person-narration functions like a mirror, also a type of heterotopia, and serves as a counter-narrative to mainstream historical narration. Doctorow portrays the Collyer brothers with their heterotopias to reflect upon the ethics of the media, to criticize uniform thinking and to express his worries about urban ecology.
引文
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Yang,Qian.“Ethical Implication and Ethical Criticism in Homer and Langley.”Academic Exchange 12(2015):181-84.[杨茜:《〈霍默与兰利〉的伦理内涵及伦理批判》,《学术交流》2015年第12期,第181-84页。]
---.“‘Each Book has Its Own Voice’:An Interview with E.L.Doctorow.”English and American Literary Studies(Spring 2016):17-26.[陈俊松:《“每本书都有它自己的声音”-访E.L.多克托罗》,《英美文学研究论丛》2016年春季,第17-26页。]
Diane Rehm Show,The.“E.L.Doctorow:‘Homer and Langley’(Rebroadcast).”Web.23 July 2015
Doctorow,E.L.Homer and Langley.London:Abacus,2009.
Foucault,Michael.Les Mots et les Choses.Trans.Mo Weimin.Shanghai:Joint Publishing Company,2001.[米歇尔·福柯:《词与物-人文科学考古学》,莫伟民译,上海:三联书店,2001年。]
---.“Of Other Spaces.”Trans.Wang Zhe.World Philosophy 6(2006):52-57.[米歇尔·福柯:《另类空间》,王喆译,《世界哲学》2006年第6期,第52-57页。
Lin,Li.“Approaching the Features of Neo-biography in Homer and Langley.”Contemporary Foreign Literature 2(2011):74-81.[林莉:《〈霍默与兰利〉的新传记叙事策略研究》,《当代外国文学》2011年第2期,第74-81页。]
Tokarczyk,Michelle M.“The City,the Waterworks,and Writing:An Interview with E.L.Doctorow.”The Kenyon Review 17.1(1995):32-37.
Wang,Yukuo.“Small Characters and Big History:On E.L.Doctorow’s Homer and Langley.”Recent Developments of Foreign Literature 1(2010):27-29.[王玉括:《小人物与大历史-评E.L.多克托罗的新作〈霍默与兰利〉》,《外国文学动态》2010年第1期,第27-29页。]
Yang,Dachun.“Modernity and Contemporaniety from the Perspective of Utopia and Heterotopia.”Modern Philosophy 1(2016):57-65.[杨大春:《现代性的乌托邦与当代性的异托邦》,《现代哲学》2016年第1期,第57-65页。]
Yang,Qian.“Ethical Implication and Ethical Criticism in Homer and Langley.”Academic Exchange 12(2015):181-84.[杨茜:《〈霍默与兰利〉的伦理内涵及伦理批判》,《学术交流》2015年第12期,第181-84页。]