《凯恩河》中的黑人母亲形象解读

Image Interpretation of Black Mothers in “Cane River”

《凯恩河》是一部纪实小说,讲述了作者拉丽塔·塔德米母亲家族三代黑人女性,从一八三四到一九三六年,在路易斯安那州的凯恩河地区的生活。在《凯恩河》中,塔德米以女性独特的视角,重塑黑人母亲形象。黑人母亲用自己的坚韧和顽强保存了家庭的完整,保护并抚育了孩子,并使黑人文化得以继承和传播。

As a documentary fiction ,Cane River explores the life of three generations of women from the family of Lalita Tademy’s mother in Cane River area of Louisiana from 1834 to 1936 .Tademy reshapes images of black mothers from her unique perspective as a black woman .The black mothers keep the intactness of family ,raise and nourish the spirits of their children and pass on the black traditions to their future generations .