重塑家园——《记忆传授人》核心意象的话语分析
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摘要
美国作家劳里的小说《记忆传授人》以丰富的意象呈现了当代少年以知识为工具进行家园重塑的艰难历程,表达了劳里对家园政治的关切。小说赋予苹果、河流、雪花等意象以解放性话语意义,它们串联在一起共同寄托了劳里对青少年改造现代家园的希望。从文学话语分析视角,结合《记忆传授人》的文本语境和历史语境,通过对核心意象的批评性话语分析解读深层文本,有助于探寻小说中关于乔纳斯从认识家园到出走家园再到重塑家园的心路历程。
The Giver by American writer Lois Lowry depicts a modern teenager's difficult journey of home building with knowledge and expresses Lowry's concern with the politics of home. The imagery of apples, rivers and snowflakes in the novel are invested with emancipatory discourse meanings to collectively harbor Lowry's hopes for teenagers' rebuilding modern home. Based on the novel's textual and historical contexts, this paper makes a literary discourse analysis of the key imagery in the novel to reveal Jonas' spiritual journey from understanding home to leaving home and finally to rebuilding home.
The Giver by American writer Lois Lowry depicts a modern teenager's difficult journey of home building with knowledge and expresses Lowry's concern with the politics of home. The imagery of apples, rivers and snowflakes in the novel are invested with emancipatory discourse meanings to collectively harbor Lowry's hopes for teenagers' rebuilding modern home. Based on the novel's textual and historical contexts, this paper makes a literary discourse analysis of the key imagery in the novel to reveal Jonas' spiritual journey from understanding home to leaving home and finally to rebuilding home.
引文
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(1)例如,麦克尔·列维(Michael Levy,1997:52)把焦点集中在了少年问题上,卡特·汉森(Carter Hanson,2009:56)则注意到了小说中涉及的文化失忆症问题。
[2]George,R.1996.The Politics of Home:Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction[M].New York:Cambridge University Press.
[3]Hanson,C.2009.The Utopian Function of Memory in Lois Lowry’s The Giver[J].Extrapolation,(1):45-60.
[4]Kidd,K.2005.“A”Is for Auschwitz:Psychoanalysis,Trauma Theory,and the“Children’s Literature of Atrocity”[J].Children’s Literature,(1):120-149.
[5]Levy,M.1997.Lois Lowry’s The Giver:Interrupted Bildungsroman or Ambiguous Dystopia?[J].Foundation,(2):50-57.
[6]Lowry,L.2014.The Giver[M].New York:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
[7]包亚明.1997.权力的眼睛--福柯访谈录[M].严锋译.上海:上海人民出版社.
[8]曹顺庆.2001.中国古代文论话语[M].成都:巴蜀书社.
[9]费小平.2010.家园政治:后殖民小说与文化研究[M].北京:北京大学出版社.
[10]高玉.2009.“话语”视角的文学问题研究[M].北京:中国社会科学出版社.
[11]米歇尔·福柯.1999.规训与惩罚[M].刘北成,杨远缨译.北京:生活·读书·新知三联书店.
[12]米歇尔·福柯.1999.性史[M].姬旭升译.西宁:青海人民出版社.
[13]潘红.2015.象征和权力--哈葛德小说She的性别话语关键词分析[J].话语研究论丛,(1):38-48.
[14]童庆炳.2004.文学理论教程[M].北京:高等教育出版社.
[15]袁霞.2014.论安妮·麦珂尔斯《冬日墓穴》中的家园意识[J].天津外国语大学学报,(3):70-75.
[16]周国平.2008.尼采:在世纪的转折点上[M].北京:新世界出版社.
(1)例如,麦克尔·列维(Michael Levy,1997:52)把焦点集中在了少年问题上,卡特·汉森(Carter Hanson,2009:56)则注意到了小说中涉及的文化失忆症问题。