超越双重身份 重建男性气概——《老人集合》中黑人男性气概研究

Analysis of Black Manhood in The Gathering of the Old Men

非裔作家欧内斯特·盖恩斯在其作品中,着力展现百年来美国黑人的历史和生存的现状。在《老人集合》这部小说中,表达了他对黑人文化的真挚情感和对美国种族问题的思考。《老人集合》这部小说向读者呈现出造成黑人男性气概缺失的历史背景和现实境遇,通过对黑人男性气概缺失以及原因的书写,指出黑人男性必须重新建构其男性气概,超越盘亘黑人心头已久的"双重意识",并通过建立黑人男性的责任意识,黑人所面临的社会问题才能得以根本的解决。

Racial prejudice has always been a serious social problem in America. In the long history of white-black conflict, the form of discrimination may vary, but the goal remains the same： to oppress and suppress the balck people. In all his novels, African American writer, Ernest Gaines is dedicated to presenting the world the genuine history of the Black. In the novel The Gathering of the Old Men, he gave an account of how a group of black men struggled to reconstruct their manhood. The author of the thesis tried to analyze how Gaines achieved the reconstruction of manhood of African Americans and reaches the conclusion that the black men must overcome the ＂double consciousness＂, and shoulder the community responsibilities in order that their manhood can be reconstructed.