约翰·埃德加·怀德曼是当代美国文学著名的非裔小说家和评论家,被评论界评为当代“最杰出的,最有才华的黑人男作家之一”。《躲藏之处》是怀德曼《乡林三部曲》中的第二部,主要讲述了黑人青年托米因被怀疑杀了人,为了逃避警察的追捕,而躲到了其外祖母的姨妈贝斯的住处。本文试以《躲藏之处》主人公的创伤为切入口,结合创伤与叙述的关系,揭示将创伤用叙述语言讲出来对该小说主人公走出创伤的重要性,从而得出作者怀德曼想要借此发出的一种呼吁:黑人群体应该积极争取自己的权利,应该为自己也为整个黑人群体创造机会;而不应一味的沉陷于黑人群体所受的集体创伤或是个体创伤的历史与现实中。 John Edgar Whiteman is a famous Afro-American novelist and critic in contemporary American literature, and was commented by the critics as one of the “most outstanding and talented black male writers” in the contemporary era. Hidden Places is the second of Madeleine’s “Trilogy of the Village”, mainly about the black young Tommy was suspected of killing people, in order to avoid the police chase, and hid her grandmother’s aunt Bass Accommodation. This article tries to take the trauma of the protagonist in “hideaway” as an entrance, and combines the relationship between trauma and narration to reveal the importance of using trauma in the narrative language to traumatize the protagonist out of the novel. This calls for an appeal: the black people should actively strive for their own rights and should create opportunities for themselves and for the entire black people. They should not blindly indulge in the history and reality of the collective trauma or individual trauma suffered by the black people .