when the imagination hits up against that wall.

这样的情况很感兴趣
How far can we go towards inhabiting the subject position

我们能在处于支配一个卑微的人的位置上
of an abject person?

呆多长时间
That's what she's testing in this novel.

这就是莫里森在这篇小说中测试的东西
And she herself speaks of a silence at the heart of it,

而她内心也在默默地诉说
and that silence is in part the silence about Pecola's

这种沉默正是贝克拉
experience of the rape, when she's raped by her father.

经历被她父亲强暴时的那种沉默
We don't really get a sense of what she thinks, what she experiences.

我们并不会真正知道她的想法她的感受
If you think again back to Barth,

如果你们再次回想起巴斯
remember that quotation of silence

想到在《梅尼洛斯》中
at the very center of Menelaiad.

集中表现的对于沉默的引述
So,Morrison is again engaging a problem

莫里森再次涉及于