Remembering the Ancestors and River Goddess as a Healing Process in Toni Morrison's Beloved

童妮．摩里森《摯愛》中的療傷敘事：追憶先祖與河流女神

Ru-yu Zheng

《Tamkang Review》 Volume 37 Issue 4 (2007/10) Pp. 151-165

Abstracts

Faced with the historical trauma of diaspora and slavery, black American narrative must confront the problems of silence and representation. Toni Morrison's Beloved demonstrates a powerful strategy of addressing this problem by engaging in a self-empowering recreation of myths that virtually invent the historical voice lost through slavery. This generative mythic function enables readers with an investment in the "deep memory process" (described by Woolger and Tomlinson) of historical trauma to escape the trap of silence and begin to construct elements for envisioning a new, positive future.

Keywords

historical trauma ； identity ； deep memory process ； Woolger and Tomlinson ； myth ； the unrepresentable

Parallel abstracts

經歷過流離失所與奴役制度的歷史的創傷，非裔美國人之敘事必須面對沉默與再現的問題。透過自我充權式的神話再創與創造一個在奴隸制度中失去的歷史之聲，童妮．摩里森的《摯愛》展示了一個面對該問題的有力策略。這個生殖性神話的功能促使讀者投入一個歷史創傷的「深層記憶的過程經驗」（根據Woolger與Tomlinson所描述），並得以逃出沉默的陷阱，開始重新建構預想積極的新未來的元素。

Parallel keywords

女歷史創傷 ； 認同 ； 深層記憶過程 ； 吳格與湯凌生 ； 神話 ； 無法再現的