关键词: 玛里琳·鲁宾逊；《基列家书》；身体；历史记忆；记忆的政治

Abstract: In Marilynne Robinsons Gilead, the radical abolitionist, minister John Ames is the “memoryindividual”, the embodied historical memory, who participates in the abolitionist movement in the Midwest. During the reconstruction era, the “social frameworks of memory” change. As he attempts to fight against collective historical amnesia, his body is subjected to the “politics of memory”. Personal memory is disciplined by the will of collective amnesia. His madness, an embodiment of violently distorted, suppressed and buried historical memory, is a metaphor of failure of individual remembrance against collective amnesia. Through the representation of Amess body in changing social contexts, Marilynne Robinson reflects on how the politics of memory impacts the remembrance and forgetting of abolitionist history, indicating that in the face of historical amnesia which is a social symptom, literature serves as a possible supplement of historical memory.

Key words: Marilynne Robinson; Gilead; body; historical memory; politics of memory