Abstract:

James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985), Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child (1999), and Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta (2002) represent the unspeakable as they respond to the Atlanta child murders of 1979–81. These writers use textual strategies including listing, excess, reportage, incantation, and shifting point of view and voice to narrate—and to show the impossibility of narrating—racist violence. Their writings about the Atlanta child murders exemplify the ways in which African American literature since the civil rights movement refuses to offer a linear narrative of increasing racial justice in the United States.

摘要：

詹姆斯·鲍德温（James Baldwin）的《物证未见》（1985），托妮·凯德·班巴拉（Toni Cade Bambara）的《那些骨头不是我的孩子》（1999）和塔亚里·琼斯（Tayari Jones）的《离开亚特兰大》（2002），代表了他们对1979-81年亚特兰大儿童谋杀案的回应。这些作家使用文本策略，包括列举，多余，报道，咒语以及改变观点和声音的角度来进行叙述，并表明无法进行叙述的种族主义暴力。他们关于亚特兰大儿童谋杀案的著作证明了非裔美国人文学的表现方式，因为民权运动拒绝提供美国日益增长的种族正义的线性叙述。