摘要
口头传统一直被认为是美国南方文化的基石,但是上世纪三四十年代,美国的视觉文化迅速发展,在美国南方文化的传承和重建过程中起着越来越重要的作用,南方文学中的视觉元素对人物身份的形成作用日益明显。本文从当代视觉理论视角出发,分析了美国南方女作家波特的《老人们》和赫斯顿的《他们眼望上帝》中的照片等视觉元素,认为这些视觉元素在女主人公解构传统女性性别、种族身份,建构新的独立身份的过程中起到了重要作用。最后,本文指出视觉将为美国女性文学和非裔美国文学研究提供新思路。
Oral tradition had been the cornerstone of American Southern culture.However,in the 1930s and 1940s,vision began to play an increasingly important role in the persistence and reconstruction of American Southern culture.The larger impact of vision on American southern literature can be found in characters' identity-formation.Following contemporary visual theories,this article explores how vision,especially photograph acts as an agent of the deconstruction of traditional gender and racial identities and reconstruction of new independent identities in Old Mortality by Katherine Anne Porter and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.In conclusion,the article points out that vision can be a new direction for the studies of American women's literature and African-American literature.
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2012年第3期76-82,158,共7页
Foreign Literature
