非种族主义作家与种族偏见——奥康纳的种族立场浅析

Non-racist Writer and Racial Prejudice——A Brief Analysis of O'Connor's Racial Stand

美国南方女作家弗兰纳里.奥康纳因其作品没有立场鲜明地支持黑人的民权运动而被一些作家定位于种族主义作家。事实上,一直生活在南方的奥康纳确实带有一些种族偏见。然而,其宗教信仰决定了其对黑人的同情与对种族主义的厌恶。在作品中,奥康纳对南方人特别是南方知识分子的种族偏见进行了剖析与批判。笔者揭示了奥康纳——一位带有些许种族偏见的非种族主义作家——的复杂种族立场。

Flannery O＇Connor, the American Southern woman writer, is termed as a racist writer by some critics, because she never showed a clear-cut stand to support the blacks in the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, O＇Connor, who lived in the South for her whole life, did have some racial prejudice. However, her religious belief determined that she sympathized with the blacks and that she held abomination in racialism. In her works, O＇Connor analyzed and criticized the racial prejudice of the southerners, especially the southern intellectuals. This paper delineates the complicated racial stand of O＇Connor a non-racist writer who has some racial prejudice.