“最蓝的眼睛”:双重歧视悲剧

"The Bluest Eye":a Tragedy of Double Discrimination

美国黑人女作家托尼.莫里森的第一部小说《最蓝的眼睛》在声讨种族主义、探讨黑人出路的问题上采取了不同于以往多数黑人作家传统的做法,标志着黑人文学逐步走向成熟和理性。小说主人公的悲剧揭示了白人种族文化观对黑人的残害,而黑人对自身的不幸也有不可推卸的责任,黑人的自我歧视埋下了更加痛苦的种子。所以,黑人自我态度的改变成了他们实现真正自我的关键。

The first novel by American black women writer Toni Morrison is The Bluest Eye,which proves that black literature is becoming more mature and reasonable.Compared with the novels by other black writers before,this book explores racism and black identification from a different angle.The heroine's tragedy eposes the evils imposed on the black by the white racial cultural views,and the black are also responsible for their own misfortunes.The discrimination among the black is a bitter source of their tragedy.Consequently,the key for them to be identified is to change their own attitudes.