黑人女性时间诗学视域下的时间意象与身份建构:以《秀拉》为例

Time Image and Identity Construction from the Perspective of Black Woman Time Poetics: Take Sula as an Example

黑人女性身份的建构是美国非裔文学关注的一个核心问题。当代美国非裔文学批评家休斯顿·A·贝克将时间意象注入性别维度,强调时间是变化的时间和审美经验的时间,潜在于语言和文本之中表现黑人女性的身份建构。本文立足于美国黑人女性诗学中的时间意识,通过对《秀拉》的文本解读来阐释黑人女性身份建构过程中所具有的流动性与族群社会性特质,进而思考整个黑人民族文化身份的"流散"与"回归"问题。

The construction of black woman’s identity is a core issue concerned in African Ameircan literature. Houston A. Baker, a contemporary Afro-American literary critic, injects a gender dimension into the time image, to focus on the idea that time is related to changes and aesthetic experiences which results in gender construction of black woman. This paper, based on the time consciousness in Afro-American woman poetics, intends to interpret the liquidity and ethnic social characteristics in the process of the construction of black woman’s identity by reading Sula, probing into the problem of＂diaspora＂and＂return＂within black people’s cultural identity.