《他们眼望上苍》中黑人女性的空间拓展

The Spatial Expansion of Black Women in Their Eyes Were Watching God

小说中人物所占据的空间反映了他们的社会权力关系,强势文化群体占据主导性空间,而弱势文化群体则占据从属性空间。佐拉.尼尔.赫斯顿的代表作《他们眼望上苍》中以主人公珍妮为代表的黑人女性所占据的外在空间由狭隘、封闭到逐渐开阔的变化反映了她们在黑白二分和性别对立的社会中获得种族和性别双重解放的历程。这种外在空间的变化映衬了她们内在空间的拓展,也促使了其种族话语和女性意识的成长。

The construction of the space in the fiction is a reflection of the power stratum in that society where the majority dominates large space and the minority is driven to the cramped space. As the protagonist in Zora Neale Hurston＇ s representative novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie moves from the enclosed living space to a much broader place as exemplified lastly by the Everglades. This spatial move reflects American women＇ s emancipatory experience in the racial and patriarchal society and the expansion in their outer space echoes that in their inner space, therefore, it prompts the growth of their racial and gender consciousness.