本文以美国当代小说家里德的《逃亡加拿大》作为个案,重点分析作品在题材和叙述手法两个方面对解放奴隶这一历史题材寄予的当代政治寓意。文章指出,作品以美国内战期间的真人真事为叙述对象,同时,采用并置历史时代、糅合文类等后现代叙事技巧,将真实事件的叙述与想象融合在一起,使得作品展现的事件及其在重新叙述中呈现的政治寓意成为一个具有多重含义的叙事结构。 This essay, based on the case of Reid Canada, a contemporary novelist in the United States, focuses on contemporary political implications on the historic theme of emancipating the slaves in terms of themes and narrative techniques. The article points out that the works take the true events of the United States civil war as the object of narration, at the same time, by using the historical era of juxtaposition and incorporating the postmodernist narrative techniques such as genre, the article integrates the narration and imagination of the real events and makes the events and Its political meaning in the re-narration becomes a narrative structure with multiple meanings.