布鲁斯:美国黑人忧伤的音乐和文学诉说——布鲁斯及其在《看不见的人》和《所罗门之歌》中的运用

Blues: Afro-American People's melancholic musical and literary expression

布鲁斯是19世纪60年代发源于美国南方腹地的一种黑人音乐,是一种悲叹生活、渴望爱情、发泄愤懑的音乐表达方式,是黑人苦难生活的真实写照。著名黑人文学批评家小贝克认为,布鲁斯音乐是黑人本土话语的典型特征,是黑人文学文本研究的原始依据和文化源泉。美国黑人作家,凭借布鲁斯音乐这一本土化的语言,来深入地探讨美国黑人的生存困境和文化追求。其中,埃里森在其小说《看不见的人》、莫里森在其小说《所罗门之歌》中创造性地把布鲁斯引入作品中,使作品有了强烈的节奏感、厚重的历史感和强烈的震撼力。

Blues originated in the south of America in 1860s. American black people created it to express their melancholy, anger and their yearning for love. Baker, a prominent black literary critic, holds that blues is the characteristic of black vernacular and is the original source of black literature. Black writers delve into American black＇s living predicament and their cultural yearnings by using blues. Ellison and Morrison usher in blues in their novels Invisible Man and Song of Solomon. By doing this, they endow strong rhythm, history dimension and strong force to their works.