Abstract This article examines Toni Morrison's anomalous use of antithetical images of physical mobility and frailty to deconstruct the conventional medical discourse that associates the white race with health and the black race with disease or contamination. Within the socio-medical history of nineteenth-century antebellum America, the mutilated and contagious black body was regarded as a national threat to able-bodied white Americans. White physiology was viewed as normal or ideal while African-Americans provoked a counter-condition that deviated from this white normality. In “Recitatif”, Morrison undermines the incessant medical language of racial whiteness that modeled black slaves as hazardous sources of pollution and impurity. In this story, Morrison focuses on the developing relationship between Twyla and Roberta whose descriptions as white or black are blurred. Yet, the confusing physical portrayal of Twyla's and Roberta's mothers adds another level of complication to the narrative. Whereas the narrator's mother, Twyla's, is described as a “dancing” character, Roberta's is “sick”. The article suggests that the readers' inability to categorize Twyla's and Roberta's mothers in the traditional racial sense due to the vague references to their physical conditions challenges the socio-medical thinking of white bodies as healthy and normal and black bodies as diseased and abnormal.

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托妮·莫里森 (Toni Morrison) 的“朗诵”中的流动性和残疾：对“跳舞”和“病态”身体的反种族解读

摘要 本文考察了托尼·莫里森 (Toni Morrison) 异常使用身体活动和虚弱的对立图像来解构将白人与健康和黑人与疾病或污染联系起来的传统医学话语。在 19 世纪战前美国的社会医学史中，残缺不全且具有传染性的黑人身体被视为对身体健全的美国白人的国家威胁。白人生理被视为正常或理想的，而非洲裔美国人则挑起了背离这种白人常态的反条件。在“Recitatif”中，莫里森破坏了种族白人的持续医学语言，该语言将黑人奴隶塑造为污染和杂质的危险来源。在这个故事中，莫里森专注于特怀拉和罗伯塔之间不断发展的关系，他们对白人或黑人的描述变得模糊。然而，Twyla 和 Roberta 的母亲令人困惑的身体写照为叙事增添了另一层复杂性。叙述者的母亲 Twyla 的母亲被描述为“跳舞”的角色，而罗伯塔的母亲则是“生病的”。这篇文章表明，由于对特怀拉和罗伯塔的母亲身体状况的模糊提及，读者无法在传统的种族意义上对他们的母亲进行分类，这挑战了社会医学认为白人身体健康正常，黑人身体患病和异常的社会医学思想。叙述者的母亲 Twyla 的母亲被描述为“跳舞”的角色，而罗伯塔的母亲则是“生病的”。这篇文章表明，由于对特怀拉和罗伯塔的母亲身体状况的模糊提及，读者无法在传统的种族意义上对他们的母亲进行分类，这挑战了社会医学认为白人身体健康正常，黑人身体患病和异常的社会医学思维。叙述者的母亲 Twyla 的母亲被描述为“跳舞”的角色，而罗伯塔的母亲则是“生病的”。这篇文章表明，由于对特怀拉和罗伯塔的母亲身体状况的模糊提及，读者无法在传统的种族意义上对他们的母亲进行分类，这挑战了社会医学认为白人身体健康正常，黑人身体患病和异常的社会医学思维。