《柏油孩子》中圣诞晚宴的狂欢化意蕴

The Christmas Dinner's Carnivalesque Meaning in Tar Baby

圣诞节的晚宴上,黑人侍从面对白人雇主的主导与压制勇敢反抗,吵架升级为打斗,晚宴成为一场闹剧。这场圣诞晚宴是《柏油孩子》中最具有颠覆性的一个场面,它所发生的一切带有狂欢化色彩,使常态生活"翻了个个",与西方筵席形象特点极其相似,而这种反常态时表现出来的状态暗含了对种族平等的追求,带有独特的文化意蕴。

In the Christmas dinner,In the face of white employers domination and repression,black attendants brave resistance,the quarrel upgraded to fight,dinner become a farce.The Christmas dinner is the most subversive scene in Tar Baby,it all with a carnival color,make the normal life 'to turn over all',and western feast image features extremely similar,which against the norm of state implied the pursuit of racial equality,with a unique cultural connotation.