走出身份迷误——解析《眼望上苍》的种族身份建构

Going Out of Identity Confusion——An Interpretation of Ethnicity Identity Construct in Their Eyes Were Watching God

黑人被贩卖到美洲大陆以来,一直处在主流文化的边缘。异文化的压力和传统文化的萦绕使非裔美国人面临着种族身份认同的困惑。如何在白人主流文化的土壤里维系自己的身份成为非裔美国文学的一大主题。非裔美国女作家佐拉.尼尔.赫斯顿的小说《眼望上苍》以独特的关怀视角和书写策略,对黑人种族身份认同问题进行了睿智的思索,并以超前的视角憧憬了人类各种族相互依存、和谐共处的多元文化景观。

Ever since the Blacks were sold to America, they have been always on the margin of the mainstream culture. With the pressure from alien culture and their lingering traditional culture, the Blacks face the puzzlement of ethnicity identification. How to maintain self-identity in the white mainstream culture has become one of the main themes of Black＇s literature. Zora Neale Hurston, a black female writer of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, made an intelligent attempt to ponder about the issue of ethnicity identification through unique caring viewpoint and writing strategy to express farsightedly the prospect of the mutual growth and harmonious coexistence of different ethnicities.