呼唤与回应、传承与发展——《他们眼望上苍》与《紫颜色》叙事策略比较

Call and Response,Heritage and Development——A Comparison of Narrative Strategy of Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple

佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿和艾丽丝·沃克是美国著名的黑人女作家,赫斯顿的《他们眼望上苍》被誉为黑人文学的经典之作,为当代黑人女性文学传统奠定了框架,沃克深受赫斯顿的影响,她的代表作《紫颜色》不仅在主题上,而且在叙事策略上也追寻了赫斯顿的女性文学传统,小说在叙事结构、叙述声音。

Both Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker are famous African American writers. Hurston＇s Their Eyes Were Watching God is acclaimed as Classic of African American Literature. It has established the framework for contemporary Afro - American female literature. Alice Walker is deeply influenced by Hurston. Her masterpiece The Color Purple follows Hurston＇s black female literary tradition and has breakthrough not only in narrative structure, but in voice, language and technique as welt.