寻找迷失的自我——论《看不见的人》的身份追寻

Seeking the “Lost” Self:On Identity Establishment in Invisible Man

美国黑人作家拉尔夫.埃里森的小说《看不见的人》展现了主人公寻找黑人民族文化,确立自我身份的过程。主人公对文化身份的探寻经历了迷惘、觉醒、顿悟三个阶段,他对黑人文化的态度从排斥、逃离到最终接受并融入其中。这一艰辛的身份追寻之旅充分说明建构黑人文化身份的关键在于接受本民族文化,自我身份认证的本质就寓于本民族的历史文化中。

In Invisible Man, the American black novelist Ralph Ellison displays the protagonist＇s journey to seek his own ethnic culture and to establish his identity. To establish his cultural identity, he has experienced three periods from being confused and evasive to being awakened and ready to accept to being suddenly enlightened and integrated. His attitude towards his own ethnic culture and his acknowledgement of his own identity has also undergone rejection, escaping and final integration. The significance of constructing the cultural identity of black people is to accept his own ethnic culture and this is also embodied in his ethnic culture and history.