20世纪美国非裔文学发展的三次高潮

Three Flowering Periods of Afro-American Literature

20世纪美国非裔文学主要经历了哈莱姆文艺复兴、抗议的狂热和自我本质的反省,进而是对生存问题的文化观照等阶段,形成了美国非裔文学史上的三次高潮。

This paper illustrates the features of Afro-American literature in the three flowering periods of the 20th century . In the 1920s and 1930s the Harlem Renaissance approached dualism. In the 1940s and 1960s the “protest novels” shifted to “self-conscious novels”. In the 1970s and 1980s Afro-American literature turned to quest for personal wholeness and harmonious community. At the same time, the paper discusses the aesthetic trends of Afro-American literature combining the traditional with the modern, the indigenous with the exotic.