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萨拉-柯林斯（Sara Collins）的处女作《弗兰妮-兰顿的忏悔》（The confessions of Frannie Langton，2019）以19世纪20年代的牙买加和伦敦为背景，是一部出色的新奴隶制历史小说。在这部小说中，柯林斯塑造并重塑了历史小说的多个子类型，如哥特小说、历史爱情小说和历史悬疑小说。弗兰妮-兰顿（Frannie Langton）因被控杀害主人和情妇而面临审判，她努力回忆谋杀当晚发生的事情，以向律师自白的形式讲述了自己的生平故事。本文试图回答以下问题：弗兰妮是在努力回忆还是在努力忘记所发生的一切？柯林斯为什么要在她的历史小说中加入强烈的哥特色彩？在弗兰妮的记忆中，她是如何处理历史犯罪的？柯林斯为何选择女同性恋关系作为小说中历史爱情的特色？本文探讨了一部 2000 年后的历史小说是如何通过坚持一些子类型并改变另一些子类型来操纵其传统子类型的，首先是哥特式，然后是谋杀故事，最后是讲述一个新奴隶故事的女同性恋爱情故事。
Remembering and forgetting in Sara Collins’ The confessions of Frannie Langton
Set in Jamaica and London in the 1820s, Sara Collins’ debut novel The confessions of Frannie Langton (2019) is a neo-slave historical novel par excellence. In it, Collins shapes and reshapes several subgenres of historical fiction, such as gothic fiction, historical romance, and historical mystery. Facing a trial based on the accusation of killing her master and mistress, Frannie Langton narrates her life story in the form of confessions to her lawyer as she endeavors to remember what happened on the night of the murder. This paper attempts to answer the following questions: Is Frannie trying to remember or to forget what happened? Why does Collins add strong gothic shades to her historical novel? How does she manipulate the historical whodunits of the crime in relation to Frannie’s memory? Why does Collins choose a lesbian relationship to feature the historical romance in the novel? The paper examines how a post-2000 historical novel manipulates its conventional subgenres by adhering to some and changing others, starting with the gothic, then the murder story and, lastly, the lesbian romance in telling a neo-slave story.
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