| Alex Miller(1936-)is one of the most important writers in contemporary Australian literature.Miller is a late comer,but to date,his dozen or so works have been excellent,covering topics such as war,art,ethnic conflict and cultural dislocation.Based on the research results of scholars at home and abroad,this paper comprehensively analyzes the themes of avoidance,reconstruction and reconciliation of trauma history in his works Ancestors’ Game,Fare Away,That Landscape and Journey to the Stone Country,and discusses the process of individuals’ peaceful settlement of trauma and the prospect of national reconciliation in Australia.This thesis consists of an introduction,three chapters and an epilogue.The introduction part first introduces Miller’s life and creation experience.Secondly,it summarizes the research situation of Miller and his works at home and abroad,and then points out the shortcomings of the comprehensive research of Miller’s works from the perspective of trauma history in the domestic academic circle.Finally,it points out the significance and research methods of studying Miller’s works from the perspective of trauma history.The main body consists of the following three chapters along with the idea of first avoiding and then reconstructing the history of trauma and finally completing the peace of trauma.The first chapter mainly analyzes the narrative strategy of avoiding traumatic history in Miller’s works.In the multi-exile space,it mainly analyzes how Miller avoids the injury of cultural dislocation by using the juxtination of physical space and social space as well as the overlap of the fates of characters between generations.In the writing of atypical trauma history,the author expounds the role of the reverse writing of mainstream history and the dreamy writing of history on the dilution of trauma experience.Individualized historical writing mainly explains the necessity of avoiding the impact of trauma on the nation and the individual from the macro and micro aspects.The second chapter mainly discusses that the victims choose to reconstruct the trauma history from different angles when they fail to avoid the trauma and form a complete trauma memory by reconstructing the trauma history of themselves or others.Firstly,it analyzes how the traumatized subject reconstructs the traumatic history for himself and others by using the diary as a special style.Secondly,from the perspective of culture and ethnicity,it explains how individuals form a new understanding of their traumatic experience in the process of reconstructing traumatic history for others.Finally,the author analyzes the reconstruction of trauma history by revisiting trauma space.The third chapter discusses that the individual finally forms a correct view of history after evading and reconstructing the traumatic history and completes the traumatic peace by facing the traumatic history with the correct attitude.From the personal trauma to the national level of racial reconciliation.First of all,from the perspective of the individual,the author analyzes the traumatized person’s reconstruction of the positive connection with the reality on the basis of the new historical view,and tries to walk out of the self-centrism centered on the traumatic experience.Secondly,it analyzes the future and direction of national reconciliation in Australia from the national level.Finally,compared with other writers of the same type,the author analyzes the uniqueness of Miller’s works in the aspects of historical view and racial issues.The epilogue summarizes Miller’s attention and reflection on the history of individual trauma and national conflict in his three novels,affirms the realistic value of Miller’s works,and reaffirms the significance of studying his works from the perspective of the history of trauma. |
