“记忆重现”——解除巨大痛苦和构建新生活的方法

［摘要］在小说《天堂》中，托妮·莫里森使用了“记忆重现”的方法来帮助小说中那些有着痛苦经历的女人们解除巨大痛苦，构建新生活。通过使女人们内心深处的心理创伤具体化，让她们学会克服创伤记忆并意识到她们无法使已经发生的暴力事件没有发生。然而她们能做的是面对创伤记忆并从痛苦记忆中解脱出来。

［关键词］记忆重现；解除；构建

［Abstract］In Paradise, Toni Morrison uses “rememory” to help women in the novel who have harrowing experience to destruct the great pains and construct a new life. This is a means by which the women externalize their deepest psychic wounds, allowing them to learn to overcome traumatic memories and teach them to realize that they can do nothing to make the violence not have happened. But what they can do is to confront these memories and to release from them.

［Key words］rememory,destruct,construct

Toni Morrison created the word “rememory” in her Beloved which is considered as the “trick” of narratives (Akoma 3), but I see it more than a narrative technique; it is a means used by those who have harrowing experience to destruct the great pains and construct a new life. Toni Morrison uses it to recollect the African American history and to have those who are haunted by the cruel past face their memories bravely and start a future. Therefore, “rememory,” as what Caroline Rody suggests, “is an active, creative mental function” (101).

“记忆重现” - 解除巨大痛苦和构建新生活的方法