媒介是支撑记忆特别是文化记忆的重要基础,不论是个体还是集体,都需要通过特定的媒介来组织、传播与继承记忆。乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨的长篇小说《掘墓人的女儿》借助文字、图像两大记忆媒介书写过往,反思个人命运与历史、种族等宏大问题。明信片、照片等形式的图像不仅在推进人物关系与情节发展上发挥了举足轻重的作用,并且体现出文字作为记忆媒介的虚妄性与图像作为记忆媒介的能动性, Media is an important foundation for supporting memory, especially for cultural memory. Individuals and collectives need to organize, disseminate and inherit memories through specific media. Joyce Carol Oates’s novel “Gravedigger’s Daughter” written in the past with the help of two major memorial media of words and images reflect on grand issues such as personal destiny, history and race. Postcards, photographs and other forms of image not only play an important role in promoting the relationship between characters and plot development, but also reflect the imaginary character of text as the memory medium and the motivation of image as a memory medium,