艾伦·泰特的《父亲们》从兰西记忆的角度,回顾了快乐山庄园的毁灭所代表的南方历史创伤,反映出创伤见证者叙述的困境。创伤造成认知的困境和时间的错失,表现为兰西叙事中先行词模糊,语义歧义等现象;而创伤的延宕性引起了过去和现在的对话,造成了兰西叙事中时态的跳跃,以及大量存在的插入语等。兰西记忆的张力体现为个人记忆和集体记忆之间,记住和忘记之间的选择。通过对记忆碎片的编织,兰西的叙事重新构建了过去的历史,完成了创伤的见证。 Alan Tate’s “fathers” recalled the historical wounds of the South, represented by the destruction of Happy Hill Manor, from the memory of Lanxi, reflecting the plight of the witness of the trauma. Traumatic cognitive difficulties caused by time and the loss of time, manifested in Lansy’s narrative vagueness, semantic ambiguity and other phenomena; traumatic delay caused a dialogue between the past and the present, resulting in the jump of tense in Lancey’s narrative, And a large number of existing inserts and so on. The tension of Lanxi’s memory manifests itself in the choice between personal memory and collective memory, remembering and forgetting. Through the weaving of memory fragments, Lancy’s narrative reconstructs the past history and completes the trauma testimony.