is extremely powerful.

非常的强大
It affects how we can know anything.

它影响着我们如何认知事物
It's not just the medium in which we can describe what we know.

这不只是我们描述我们所知道的方法
It's that very foundation through which we know anything.

它就是我们认知任何事物的那个根基
And I think some of the revisionist history that you see taking place in fiction

我认为你们看到发生在小说中的一些修正主义历史
--and here I'll have recourse again to Beloved--

现在我要再次提及《宠儿》
demonstrates the belief in language's power to make history.

诠释了对语言的力量可以造就历史的信仰
Toni Morrison is, in Beloved, looking towards

托妮·莫里森在《宠儿》中也期待
fiction to do something else, too, and that's to replace lost history.

小说可以写一些其他的那就是把不为认知的历史放进来
Another development, out of Foucault's work and the work of others,

另一个福柯和其他人的作品中提到的发展
is an interrogation of the archive.

是对于档案的审查
What's in the archive?

档案里有什么