選擇作品：Strangers by Toni Morrison

????????“美國(guó)第一位獲得諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)的黑人女作家”

????????“一個(gè)陌生女人引發(fā)的重重思考”

????????“媒介時(shí)代的人們?cè)撊绾螞_破人與人關(guān)系的繭房？”

?????????作者講述了自己偶遇一位陌生人的奇幻經(jīng)歷，并由此思考了人與他者的關(guān)系、人的本質(zhì)等問(wèn)題，同時(shí)推薦了攝影家羅伯特·柏格森在美國(guó)旅行時(shí)拍攝的影集A Kind of Rapture。

內(nèi)容干貨

1. 作者簡(jiǎn)介，本文概要

????????作者簡(jiǎn)介：Toni Morrison, American writer noted for her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

????????Notable Works:The Bluest Eye,Song of Solomon,Beloved

?????????作品梗概：Toni Morrison discusses a strange incident she had once with a quirky old fisherwoman, and uses this story to go off into a discussion of how media images shape the way we view other people & even prevent us from really getting to know the strangers we meet.

?2. 單詞詞組，地道表達(dá)

????????魚(yú)鉤arc into 溪流，勾起running的catfish, eel和perch。她have a lock on釣魚(yú)技術(shù)，總喜歡好幾天in a row在釣魚(yú)。

????????我感到bewildered，感覺(jué)她在fib，她一定take advantage of其他人并poach了很多保護(hù)動(dòng)物。但趕走她之后，我的內(nèi)心又devoid of 趣味和溫暖。她的deceit和mendacity讓我感到chagrin，但是我們的camaraderie我卻無(wú)法遺忘。我雖然得到來(lái)自好友的admonition，但我仍然無(wú)法自拔。她是如此的benign，讓人覺(jué)得她不會(huì)被contaminated。這種印象被深深地embedded在我的腦海里，以致于我相信了她deploy的所有形象，succumbing to the perversions。卻不知她用她的artifice，和她的朋友complicit，做了如此的勾當(dāng)。她在我的眼里是Beneath contempt，她不值得我的reverence和solace。

?3. 散文佳句，沉浸賞析

????????? I get nowhere except for the stingy explanation that she had come into my space and had implied promises of female camaraderie, of opportunities for me to be generous, of protection and protecting.

????????為什么我沉浸在陌生女人消失不見(jiàn)的悲傷和痛苦之中，無(wú)法自拔？

??????????Art as well as the market can be complicit in the sequestering of form from formula, of nature from artifice, of humanity from commodity.

????????藝術(shù)和市場(chǎng)相勾結(jié)會(huì)對(duì)藝術(shù)、對(duì)人造成怎么樣的影響？

??????????Why would we want to know a stranger when it is easier to estrange another? Why would we want to close the distance when we can close the gate?

????????將他人扁平化、貼上標(biāo)簽，雖然降低了認(rèn)知成本，卻也讓我們無(wú)法真正地去認(rèn)識(shí)一個(gè)人。

??????????It is the randomness of the encounter with our already known—although unacknowledged—selves that summons a ripple of alarm.

????????似乎深植在我們內(nèi)心深處的潛意識(shí)里，我們都是社恐……

??????????One by one by one the photographs unveil us, asserting a beauty, a kind of rapture, that is as close as can be to a master template of the singularity, the community, the unextinguishable sacredness of the human race.

????????通過(guò)攝影、通過(guò)藝術(shù)我們可以探索到人性之美、生活之喜。

4. 主旨哲思，流連賞玩

?????? ???他人所在，地獄之所。

????????“I get nowhere except for the stingy explanation that she had come into my space (next to it, anyway — at the property line, at the edge, just at the fence, where the most interesting things always happen), and had implied promises of female camaraderie, of opportunities for me to be generous, of protection and protecting. Now she is gone, taking with her my good opinion of myself, which of course is unforgivable.”

????????“I immediately sentimentalized and appropriated her. I owned her or wanted to...”

????????我們究竟是如何看待他人？是彼此尊重，還是將他人視作自己的生活這部戲劇中的配角……

??????????敗也媒介，成也媒介。

????????“Routine media presentations deploy images and language that narrow our view of what humans look like (or ought to look like) and what in fact we are like.”

????????“…is as close as can be to a master template of the singularity, the community, the unextinguishable sacredness of the human race.”

????????媒介可以縮窄人們的視野，也可以幫助人們探索更大的世界……

????????我們行走在世間，究竟是希望可以囿于自己小小的一隅，用自己的認(rèn)知覆寫(xiě)世界；還是希望憑借自己的努力和探索，能夠開(kāi)闊視野、認(rèn)識(shí)世界、貼近人之本性？

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