“纯我”与“真我”的对立统一——释读赫斯顿自传《路上的尘埃痕》

The Perfect Combination of "Ideal Self" and "Real "Self"Perfect Combination of "Ideal Self" and "Real "Self"——Reading of Dust Tracks on a Road by Hurston

黑人自传是美国自传文学极具特色的一部分,尤其是黑人女性自传。因女性身份、肤色原罪等群体特征,黑人女性自传揭示了多重自我、呈现了"我"与"我们"的代表与被代表关系。然而,近年来被美国文学界重新发掘的黑人女作家赫斯顿的自传《路上的尘埃痕》,却打破了黑人女性自传揭示群体性自我的传统,通过消解"我"的种族身份、女性身份而构建了"纯我",而其现实生活中"真我"却被作者以迂回式叙事策略而遮掩了。"纯我"与"真我"在自传文本中以复调式叙述结构、以此消彼长的延展而达到最终的对立统一。

Black autobiography, black women autobiography in particular, is a marvelous part of American autobiography. For such physical characteristics as race and gender of black women, black women autobiographical texts reveal muhiple selves and the representation of self as a group. However, Dust Tracks on a Road by Hurston, a rediscovered preeminent black women writer, has challenged and broken the conventional paradigm and narrative modes of black women autobiography. In the text, Hurston constructs her ＂ideal self＂ and conceals her ＂real self＂ by unfixing her racial identify and gender. Her ＂ideal self＂ and ＂real self＂ get to present themselves a perfect combination in an echoing and refraining narrative pattern.