论科尔森·怀特黑德小说《地下铁道》中的棉花叙事  

The Cotton Narrative in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

作　　者：张琳[1] ZHANG Lin(School of Foreign Languages,Qufu Normal University,Qufu 273165,China)

机构地区：[1]曲阜师范大学外国语学院,山东曲阜273165

出　　处：《山东外语教学》2023年第1期95-102,共8页Shandong Foreign Language Teaching

基　　金：山东省社会科学规划项目“当代非洲流散女性文学的中间航道书写”(项目编号:22CWWJ04);山东省青创人才引育计划“数字人文与外语创新研究团队”支持。

摘　　要：在科尔森·怀特黑德的历史推想小说《地下铁道》中,棉花叙事贯穿其中,成为尤为凸显的文学现象。小说中的棉花叙事资源涉及内战前美国南方棉花王国的形成、黑人棉奴的命运,以及种族极权主义等问题,全面再现了由棉花经济和奴隶制双重主导的南方地域图景。怀特黑德将棉花叙事嵌入逃奴叙事,一方面使奴隶个人叙事和由棉花驱动的国家话语勾连,为奴隶叙事添加了丰富的经济学和历史学注释;另一方面以棉花引发的社会问题为纽带,使黑人逃奴成为若干种族主义历史事件的观察者和叙述者,由此实现对白人种族主义历史编撰的“反凝视”和“反书写”。In Colson Whitehead’s speculative historical fiction The Underground Railroad,the cotton narrative runs throughout the text and is especially noteworthy.It covers the formation of the Kingdom of Cotton in the antebellum South,the fate of black cotton slaves,and the issue of ethnic totalitarianism.In this way,the landscape of the antebellum South,simultaneously dominated by cotton and slavery,is fully presented.By embedding the cotton narrative into the fate of the fugitive-slave,Whitehead relates the perspective of the fugitive to the national discourse driven by cotton,which mediates the individualized slave narrative with abundant economic and historical notes.Meanwhile,Whitehead locates the fugitive slave in the cotton-related racist events,who serves as the observer and narrator of the events,exercises the oppositional gaze and rewrites history against white racialists’historiography.

关 键 词：科尔森·怀特黑德 《地下铁道》 棉花叙事 奴隶制 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]