咆哮する沈黙:記録から文学へ -Beloved とThe Women of Plums の場合
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It was during the winter of 1856 that the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and her family crossed the Ohio River and arrived in Cincinnati. Unfortunately, their hiding place was surrounded by pursuers, and Margaret was determined to kill herself and her four children rather than to be taken back into slavery. She was, however, arrested immediately after she cut the throat of her little daughter with a knife. She was being taken South with her three other Children when the ship was wrecked in an accident. It is not certain whether she was thrown into the water together with her children or whether she threw them into the river herself and , then, jumped in after them. Her children were drowned but she was saved. We can only perceive a great roaring in the stony silence of Margaret Garner who crouched "like a wild animal"on the rescue ship. In the 1980s, two Afro-American literary works based on these documents were published.Dolores Kendrick focused on the latter half of the documents and produced a poem entitled "Peggy in Killing".She took this as an opportunity to study slave narratives and many other related historical documents. She then followed the voices of the slave women she read about, feeling and acting like"a medium." The Women of Plums, the collection of poems spoken in the voices of 34 slave women, is a testimony to and celebration of the strength of their spirit - a spirit which black women of today have inherited. On the other hand, Toni Morrison focused on the first half of the documents, and created an unforgettable story based on the hypothesis that the mother was not taken back to slavery but was allowed to stay in Cincinnati after having killed her beloved daughter. In Beloved, Sethe, the ex-slave of the Garners', keeps fighting back the memories of her miserable past in order to live, and to raise her three other children. But the ghost of the little girl haunts 124 Bluestone Street where the tragic event happened. After 18 years, this ghost incarnates itself as a young girl,and this girl "Beloved"begins living with her mother and sister. Such an extraordinary plot makes it possible for the characters to speak out repressed feelings which official documents would never be able to express: and so doing, Morrison tries to repose the souls of those black ancestors who died a violent death.
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