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Title: Reconstruction of Brain Text: The Initiation of Celestial in an American Marriage
Other Titles: 脑文本重构 《美国式婚姻》中瑟莱丝蒂尔的成长
Authors: Xue Heyu
Keywords: brain text
epistolary narrative
Initiati on process
mass incarceration
Issue Date: 2025
Publisher: Державний заклад «Південноукраїнський національний педагогічний університет імені К.Д. Ушинського»
Citation: Xue Heyu. Reconstruction of Brain Text: The Initiation of Celestial in an American Marriage / Xue Heyu // Modern vectors of science and education development in China and Ukraine (中 国与乌克兰科学及教育前沿 研究 ): International annual journal. Odesa: South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky, Harbin: Harbin Engineering University, 2025. Issue 11. P. 114-127.
Abstract: Against the backdrop of the American mass incarceration system, Tayari Jones An American Marri age reveals, through the epistolary narratives of the African American couple Roy and Celestial, the mechanism by which the double violence of race and gender disciplines individual choices. Based on brain text theory, this paper focuses on the content of Celestial s letters and analyzes how the letters serve as a material carrier of “perceptions and cognitions stored in the brain”, externalizing the character s psychological trauma and demonstrating the process of brain text reconstruction. Celeste’s choic e of abortion exposes the dilemma of African American women in terms of bodily autonomy and racial stigmatization. Her brain text undergoes a threefold reconstruction: first, she re examines the dilemma of race and gender from the perspective of reality; s econd, she completes the rational choice of abortion through the game of rights in marriage; and finally, she realizes self reconciliation. Jones sublimates the individual narrative into a critique of the white dominant system through the epigraph, reveali ng the interpretive potential of brain text theory in decoding the structural violence in the United States, and providing an innovative research perspective for the study of African American literature.
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