Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison’s From Harvey River
Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison’s From Harvey River
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缝合文化认同问题：洛娜·古迪森的《哈维河》
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2010
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Sandra Pouchet Paquet
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Sandra Pouchet Paquet
哈维河：《我母亲和她的岛的回忆录》是一部自传体/传记体叙事作品，它不仅重新定位了洛娜·古迪逊已出版作品中与母亲有关的主体，作为女性成长的原型，它还通过坚持牙买加种族和文化异质性的创造力，重申了牙买加民族成长的历史轨迹。一方面，这本回忆录将自律视为培育家庭和社区的必要而有价值的工作，同时保持了世纪职业作家洛娜·古迪逊（Lorna Goodison）和20世纪母亲多丽丝·古迪逊（Doris Goodison）之间的谨慎界限。另一方面，它尊重一个民族的文化景观，这是由殖民者和反叛者、主人和奴隶、欧洲人、非洲人和克里奥尔人的各种各样的人形成的，他们在一场为个人、家庭和集体的社会改善而进行的变革性和生成性斗争中，将“创造生活”的复杂文化遗产缝合在一起。
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island is an autobiographical/biographical narrative that not only resituates the body of Lorna Goodison’s published work in relation to the mother as archetype of female becoming, it also reaffirms the historical trajectory of Jamaican national becoming by insisting on the creative power of Jamaica’s racial and cultural heterogeneity. On the one hand, the memoir honors domesticity as the necessary and valuable work of nurturing family and community while maintaining discreet lines of demarcation between the persona of the professional writer Lorna Goodison in the twenty-first century, and that of Doris Goodison archetypal mother of the twentieth. On the other, it honors a cultural landscape of national becoming fashioned by a motley assortment of colonials and rebels, masters and slaves, Europeans and Africans and Creoles, who stitched together the complex cultural legacy of “making life” in a transformational and generative struggle for social betterment that is at once personal, familial and collective.