《德西蕾的孩子》:宗教外衣下的种族政治

On the Christianity-Cloaked Racist Politics in "Désirée’s Baby"

肖邦在《德西蕾的孩子》中借用圣经中上帝与撒旦冲突的神话原型人物形象,将美国南方白人与黑人分为宗教意义上的两大敌对阵营,传达出她宗教外衣下的褒奖白人、贬低黑人的种族主义立场,可以说该短篇小说是一部彻头彻尾的为奴隶制辩护的种族主义作品。

In ＂Désirée’s Baby＂,Kate Chopin borrows the archetypal images of God and Satan in Bible to categorize,religiously speaking,the White and Black in the American South into two conflicting camps.Further reading from this perspective contributes to revealing that Chopin eulogizes the White and depreciates the Black,which leads to a conclusion that the story is an utterly racist work of fiction.