民权运动初期非裔美国人的身份认同——《阳光下的葡萄干》的主题探析

African American Identifications in Early Period of Civil Rights Movement——Analysis of the Theme of A Raisin in the Sun

身份认同在文学作品中经常是学者们关注的要点之一,而在非裔美国文学中,身份认同似乎成了一个永恒的话题,作家们刻意描写的或是评论家们努力挖掘的常常都与自我探寻、身份建构有关。非裔美国女剧作家洛琳·汉丝贝莉的经典剧作《阳光下的葡萄干》反映了民权运动初期非裔美国人的身份认同观念及其行为取向,体现在作为美国人而向主流社会的认同和回归本源的非洲文化认同两个方面。身份认同的关键在于人们对待本族群"根源"的态度取向和由此产生的社会行为。人们根据时代、社会背景和自身的社会定位来做出必要的取舍,实现自我。

Identification has been a focus of concern in terms of literary works. In African American literature, it seems to be a permanent topic, highlighted by both the writers and the critics. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, a famous African A- merican woman playwright, deals with the identification of African Americans in early period of the Civil Rights Movement, which is embodied in the orientation to the mainstream American society by the majority of African Americans who considered them first as American and in the choice of return to Africa by some who strongly associated them with their ancestral root. Identification is the way to self- realization. People choose the approaches in accordance with the social situation and their self-definition.