论托妮·莫里森小说中美国黑人自欺的自我认识

On Self-identity of American Blacks' Bad Faith in Toni Morrison's Novels

美国黑人女性作家托尼·莫里森笔下的角色常处于精神和文化缺失的黑色孤岛上。他们在现实生活中遭遇歧视和迫害后常形成自欺的自我认识,以逃避来自外界的焦虑和自我认定的责任,从而导致自我的迷失,甚至是自我颠覆。这篇文章从萨特的本体论入手,分析了三种自欺的自我认识,以反映黑人群体在白人主流文化的冲击下,在被歧视的白人社会中所遭受的心灵的煎熬和困惑,以体现黑人精神和文化重建的必要性。

African-American woman writer Toni Morrison creates many black characters in her novels who have committed Bad Faith in order to get rid of anxiety imposed by the racial discriminated American socioty or to run away from responsibility to explore their own self-identity. This paper tries to classify them into three different kinds according to Sartre＇ s theory. The analysis shows how much the black have suffered psychologically in the white-dominated society and reflects the importance of the reconstruction of the culture and spirit of the black community.