摘要
爱德华·P·琼斯的小说创作体现了美国当代黑人文学发展的新特点。他的长篇小说和短篇小说集,分别以19世纪奴隶制时代和20世纪都市里的黑人生活为素材,但探讨的是普遍的社会和人性问题,表现出处在历史纠葛、道德困境中的复杂人性。小说的表现形式别具一格,长篇像是短篇故事的汇聚,短篇像是长篇小说的小型版,情节淡化,细节丰富,采用了非线性叙述,叙述视点频繁转换,叙述态度疏离。琼斯的小说创作融合了多种文学传统,成为美国当代黑人文学的新坐标。
Edward P. Jones＇ works represent new traits of contemporary African American literature. His novels and short stories based on the daily lives of African Americans in the 19th century slavery times or in the 20th century metropolis, explore the common social and human problems, and uncover the complex humanity trapped in historical entanglements or moral dilemmas. His writing style is unique. His novels look like the assembly of short stories and short stories seem like miniatures of novels. Scenarios are minimized, details and narratives loosely and nonlinearly presented, and narrative points of view constantly shifted. Jones＇ works combine multiple literary traditions and become a new milestone of current African American literature.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第3期155-164,共10页
Foreign Literature Studies
