看不见的人 看得见的焦虑

Invisible Man,Visible Anxiety

作为20世纪描述美国黑人创伤小说之一的《看不见的人》,通过主人公看不见的人对其社会身份、自我身份和未来追求的焦虑,勾画了黑人探索个人命运和种族命运的众生像,展现了黑人长期被迫面对的种族歧视和文化身份危机,记载了黑人文化身份意识逐步走向自觉的历程。焦虑来源于对自己在世界中所处地位的担忧,因此在以白人价值观为主导的美国社会中,对自我身份、社会身份以及种族意识焦虑的探讨不仅对于黑人群体,对其它少数族裔群体的权利诉求也具有深远而现实的意义。

Ralph Allison＇ s Invisible Man, as one of most important novels in the twentieth century which describe the American blacks＇ trauma, delineates their pictures for the exploration of personal destiny and racial fate, and shows the racial and cultural identity crisis which they have to confront for a long time, and also records a gradual conscious course of black cultural identity awareness through the protagonist＇ s anxieties for social identity, self-identity and the pursuit for the future. Anxiety comes from the concerns for their status in the world; therefore, in the white＇ s value- oriented American society, the anxiety investigation of self-identity, the social identity and the racial awareness has a far-reaching practical significance not only to the black community but also to the right demand of other ethnic minorities.