虚构中的真实——奥康纳笔下的南方文化

Truthfulness in Fiction The Southern Culture in O'Connor's Novels

作为美国"南方文学的先知",弗兰纳里·奥康纳的作品都以南方为背景,描写了二战后南方的经济生活快速发展、被物质化的人们生活在腐败的商业社会中、道德沦丧信仰缺失的景象。本文从南方的种族文化、经济文化和宗教文化入手,剖析奥康纳作品,揭示奥康纳独特的写作视角以及写作目的,为读者了解当时的南方文化提供了很好的途径。

Flannery O＇ Connor is regarded as the prophet of American southern culture, and her novels are all set in American South and depict the picture that materialistic people lived in a corrupt business world, lacking faith and with moral decay with the rapid development of economy in American South. From the aspects of ethnic culture, economic culture and religious culture of the South, the author aims at analyzing O＇ Connor＇ s unique writing perspective and purpose of writing, which may provide a good way for readers to understand the prevailing culture of American South.