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1、SyllabusReview1(2009):153-169NSYLLABUSREVIEWESHuman&SocialScienceSeries“ToniMorrison'sBeloved:atraumaticbookonthetraumaofslavery?”CharlesW.ScheelDépartementd’Anglais,UFRLettresetLangues–IleduSaulcy,UniversitéPaulVerlaine-Metz,F-57045MetzCedex1,France.Tél.+33(0)387315945,Courri
2、el:charles.schell@univ-metz.fr©EcoleNormaleSupérieure,UniversitédeYaoundéI,CamerounAbstractAworkofshockingevocationsandstunningpoetry,ToniMorrison'sBelovedhasbecomeamustonAmericanliteraryreadinglists,inspiteofitsbewilderingcomplexity.Ithasbeenreadaspertainingtovarioussub-genre
3、s:trauma-literature,feministliterature,slavenarratives,post-colonialism,post-modernism,thefantastic,theGothic,thegrotesque,thesublime,thebeautiful,magicalrealism,themysterynovel,etc.ThisessayarguesthatalthoughBelovedisatext-bookcaseofthemagicalrealist(andnotthefantastic)narrat
4、ivemode,whichstrengthensitsgrotesqueandGothicaspectsbutweakensitsclaimstorealism,thebook'spoeticlanguageandauthorialexaltationmakeitalsoanillustrationofmarvelousrealism.Thesevariousaestheticfacetscombinewithmodernistnarrativefragmentationtechniqueswhichturnthismajorpoeticexplo
5、rationofthetraumaofAfricanAmericanslaveryintoapotentiallytraumaticexperienceforreadersinsearchofwhospeaksinBeloved?“ToniMorrison'sBeloved:atraumaticbookonthetraumaofslavery?”ToniMorrison'sworkhasgeneratedanenormousamount“ToniMorrison'sBeloved:atraumaticbookonthetraumaofslavery
6、?”154ofsecondaryliterature.1Beloved,inparticular,isconsideredasthebookthathas,morethananyotheroneitseems,writtentrauma–theoneresultingfromthe“re-memory”ofslavery–in20thcenturyAmericanliterature.Tothepointthatthisveryphenomenonissometimesperceivedastraumaticinitself.WhilethePul
7、itzerPrizeforfictionin1988haddecidedlyhelpedtoputTonyMorrisonontheAmericanliterarymap,the1993NobelPrizeunleashedaprocessofcanonizationwhichincluded,morespecifically,theerectionofaliterarymonument,“ToniMorrison'sBeloved,”henceabbreviatedin“TMB.”2ThismonumentloomsverylargeonAmer
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