摘要
《六月庆典》围绕一个黑人父亲与白人养子之间的故事,探讨种族问题与美国民主的关系。拉尔夫·埃利森以西方古典神话为原型,以非裔美国民俗文化为源泉,把个人救赎与一个民族的文化救赎缝合在一起,以此表明黑人的历史和命运关乎美国自由民主价值之根基。只有正视对黑人所犯的"原罪",继承以林肯为代表的先贤所开创的政治传统,美国社会才能真正地走向未来。《六月庆典》既是一部黑人族群的"出埃及记",又是一个民族的奥德修斯之旅;既是关于一个民族过去历史的寓言,又是对一个民族未来命运的隐喻。
Juneteenth explores the relationship between racial problem and American democracy by telling of the story of a black father and his adopted son. With Western classical mythology as prototype,taking Afro- American folk culture as resources,Ralph Ellison combines the personal salvation with the cultural salvation of a nation to reveal the truth that black history and destiny is key to American freedom and democracy. Only to confront the ＂original sin ＂committed by the whites,to inherit the political tradition exemplified by Abraham Lincoln,can America embrace a bright future. Juneteenth is an Exodus for the blacks,an Odysseus＇ s journey for American nation,an allegory about the past history as well as a metaphor for the future of the country.
出处
《外国语文》
北大核心
2015年第1期47-51,共5页
Foreign Languages and Literature
