| 英文摘要 |
The author explores the dynamics between Anna, a collector characterized in the black notebook, and her collection of African artifacts—letters, critiques, and newspaper clippings. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s concept of collectability, the author highlights the involuntary memories triggered by Anna’s tactile engagement with these items. The author explores how ordinary objects, initially tied to scientific technologies and capitalism, transform into“magical”items through Anna’s collection process. The analysis also considers Benjamin’s epistolary interactions and gift economy, focusing on his handmade notebooks. This perspective illuminates the intricate mechanisms behind Anna’s assembly of four-colored notebooks and an“integrated”golden notebook in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. Comparative studies of the African cook’s wife in Frontiers of War and the cook’s“daughter”in the work’s critiques reveal how inconsistencies in these portrayals evoke Anna’s involuntary memories. These discrepancies expose Anna’s observations of the impact on African residents’lives and her critique of colonial authorities’racial class distinctions undermining African workers’labor rights. The final organization of items in the black notebook transcends the initial dichotomy of money and resources, offering a nuanced understanding of the colonized space. The paper examines how Anna’s reorganization of the collection triggers her involuntary memory and how these items, including newspaper clippings, function as an encyclopedia. Ultimately, the collected objects in the black notebook, as written in The Golden Notebook, develop unique subjectivities. |