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Title: | “Superhistory” and the “Spirit of Transgression”:E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel 「超級歷史」與「逾越意識」:達特羅的《但以理書》 |
Authors: | Chang, Kenny 張國慶 |
Keywords: | superhistory;official history;simulation;perceptivn criminal;spirit of transgression;history of the oppressed;超級歷史;正史;虛擬;睿智的罪犯;逾越的意識;受壓迫者的歷史 | Issue Date: | Jun-2006 | Publisher: | 臺北市:外文學系 | Start page/Pages: | 41-62 | Source: | NTU Studies in Language & Literature Number 15 | Abstract: | The Book of Daniel, E. L. Doctorow’s first widely-acclaimed novel, is a fictional exploration of the controversial case of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg who were wrongfully executed for treason by the Truman Administration during the Red Menace of the 1950s. The novel demonstrates not only Doctorow’s strong aversion to social injustice---one of the themes that run through all his work---but also thenovelist’s successful experiment in fictionalizing a historical event. Historical actuality & imaginary episodes are deftly woven together into a literary construct. To Doctorow, official history is to a certain extent fictionalized, & fiction can be a “superhistory” in which a writer may amass available historical data, reconstruct them in an intricate configuration, & thus offer dialectical perspectives on sociopolitical realities. A writer, as it were, is a “perceptive criminal”---a criminal who opens himself to perception, is sensitive to the life of the downtrodden, & possesses “a spirit of transgression” to facilitate social change. 達特羅第一部廣受稱譽的小說《但以理書》是以文學想像的手法探究一九 五○年代,赤色恐慌時期,遭杜魯門政府入罪羅森堡夫婦的故事。這部小說展 現出貫穿達特羅所有作品的主題,亦即對社會不公不義的憎惡,以及作者成功 地運用小說手法改寫歷史的實驗。歷史的真實情境和想像的情節圓熟地交織於 這個文學創作中。 就達特羅而言,在某種程度,正史是虛構的,而小說可以是「超級歷史」, 藉此作者得以匯聚歷史文獻,重新形塑縝密的架構,並對社會政治現況提出辯 證的觀點。作家可以說是「睿智的罪犯」---開放接受各種相異觀點,關注受壓 迫者的生活,並且具有逾越的意識以促進社會變革。 |
URI: | http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/2006121215550453 | Other Identifiers: | 246246/2006121215550453 |
Appears in Collections: | 外國語文學系 |
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