有聲于無形處：《無形人》中的言說與共同體形塑

中圖分類號：I106.4 文獻標志碼：A 文章編號：1672-1101（2025）03-0059-07

Being Audible Where Invisible： The Articulation in Invisible Man and Community Building

XU Wei，ZHANG Yi

（School ofGeneral Education，Wannan Medical College，Wuhu，Anhui241oo2，China）

Abstract： During the atypical slavery period of African American community，white slave owners imposed verbal restraints on black people to keep them permanently invisible. In Invisible Man，Ralph Elison employs varied obscure and convoluted articulation that challenges，teases out and exceeds the limits of“unspeakable" on the border of“speakable"，to reveal the unspeakable secret of African American community's marginalized situation in mainstream society and stand for themselves. To solve the tension between the speakable and unspeakable，the literary strategies are defamiliarization and paradoxical expresson， the metaphor of metaphor and unreliable narration， which can also be regarded as a literary embodiment of the self-immunity of the black community. Cultural memory is a social solution to speak the unspeakable. The protagonist's first rejecting， then reconciling with and final accepting of collective cultural memories，reveals the psychological process of individual's integration into theethnic community.Ellson's literary practice helps the disadvantaged black community to assert their identity and historical status，which plays a pragmatic role in the process of selfproduction of ethnic community，and points to a path towards “the third community” as argued by J. Hillis Miller.

Key words： articulation; community; speaking the unspeakable; Invisible Man

《新約·約翰福音》曰：“太初有言，言與神同在，言就是神。（剩余10665字）