《赎罪》中的新历史主义观
The Perspective of the New Historicism in Atonement

在新历史主义视域下解读现当代英国著名作家伊恩？麦克尤恩的长篇小说《赎罪》，探索分析麦氏是如何突破传统历史主义批评方法范畴，将目光聚焦于处于权力边缘的小人物和个体家族的历史，将个体命运与家族兴衰穿插于文本主线中，表现出“复写”“多元”的历史。继而探析作者是如何通过填补历史的断层与缝隙，重构缺失的历史记忆，借助敦刻尔克之役这一真实史料的描写来避开主流历史的意识形态主导。最后探析作者是如何通过视角转换解除传统历史中的女性喑哑禁锢，赋予她们诉说真实历史和追求自我个体生命价值的话语权力。本文通过展现《赎罪》中的新历史主义观，发掘文本背后蕴藏的意识形态和权力话语体系，引发读者对历史“真实性”的思考，以期为《赎罪》的研究增添新的视角。
In the context of the new historicism, this paper interprets the novel Atonement by the famous contemporary British writer Ian McEwan, and explores how McEwan breaks through the scope of traditional historicist criticism and focuses on the history of marginal people and individual families on the edge of power, interspersing the fate of individuals and the rise and fall of families in the main line of the text, and showing a “rewritten” and “multifaceted” history. It then explores how the writer fills in the gaps in history, reconstructs the missing historical memories, and avoids the ideological domination of mainstream history by depicting the real historical material of the battle of Dunkirk. Finally, this paper explores how the author, by shifting the perspective, releases the mute confinement of women in traditional history and empowers them to speak about the real history and pursue the value of their individual lives. By exploring the new historicist perspective in Atonement, this paper attempts to show the hidden ideological and power discourse system behind the novel’s text and provoke readers to think about the “truthfulness” of history, in order to add new perspectives to the study of Atonement.