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1、Copyright©1996ThePurdueResearchFoundation.Allrightsreserved.ModernFictionStudies42.1(1996)1-30;SpacingandPlacingExperienceinToniMorrison'sSulaPatriciaMcKeeInToniMorrison'sSula,spacing--thatis,closingdownoropeningupdistancesbetweenthingsandpersons--hasextraordinaryurgency.Housesandbodiesarethesiteso
2、fhyperactivemechanismsofcontainmentandexpulsionworkingtoeffectidentityanddistinction:ofinsideandoutside,ofselfandother.Spacing,moreover,becomescrucialtoissuesofrepresentationandmeaningintheBottom,theplaceinwhichmostoftheactionofthenoveloccurs.HoustonA.Baker,Jr.,hascalledattentiontotheimportanceofpl
3、aceinthenovel:"WhatMorrisonultimatelyseeksinhercodingofAfro-AmericanPLACEisawritingofintimate,systematizing,andorderingblackvillagevalues,"hesuggests(237).Identifyingthisorderingwithfemaledomesticlaborandritualsofcleaning,BakerarguesthatMorrison"places"AfricanAmericanexperiencebymeansof"manipulatio
4、nsofthesymbolic,"counteringconventionsofdisplacementbyaffording"amirroringlanguage...inwhichwecanfindourselves"(258).Butalthoughthemanipulationofpersonsandthingsinspacecaneffectasymbolicorder,MorrisonalsousesothermeansoflocatingexperienceinSula.Inmydiscussionofthenovel,Iwanttodistinguishbetweensyst
5、ematicspacingarrangements,ofthekindnecessarytoa[EndPage1]symbolicorder,andMorrison'splacementsofexperiencethatorderlyrepresentationmisses.Twoplacesinthenovelthatindicateherconcerntolocatemissingexperienceare"theplacewhereChickenLittlesank"intheriver(61)andtheplaceEvaPeace'smissinglegonceoccupied,"t
6、heemptyplaceonherleftside"(31).Neitheroftheseisquitewhatonewouldexpectaplacetobe,sinceneitheristhepresentlocationofanything.Liketheemptyspacesinasymbolicorder,theseplacesmarkanabsence.InTheArchitectureofDeconstruction:Derrida'sHaunt,MarkWigleyemphasizesthespatialcharacterofrepresentationinDerridean
7、deconstruction:"Spacingisthe'distance'ofrepresentation:boththespatialintervalsbetweensignifiersandtheeffectofsubstitution,theproductionofthesensethatthematerialsignifier'standsinfor'somethingdetachedfromit,
