美国非裔青少年的生存之道:《我死去兄弟的自传》

The Survival of African-American Adolescent: Autobiography of My Dead Brother

沃尔特·迪安·迈尔斯是美国非裔青少年、儿童文学的重要作家。其小说《我死去兄弟的自传》用现实主义的手法描绘了美国非裔青少年的现实生存景象。小说主角从成长道路的选择到生与死的洗礼、从成长的迷惘到走向坚定的生存信念的过程,深刻地揭示了美国非裔青少年的生存之道。小说略显残酷的情节,体现了美国非裔青少年小说的共性,建构了青少年群体主体性。

Walter Dean Myers is one of the key authors of African-American adolescent and children′s literature.The realistic survival of the African-American adolescents were described with realism in his fiction Autobiography of My Dead Brother.The survival of the hero in the fiction is fully disclosed in the process from the choices and confusion in the growth to the firm belief of survival.The some-what cruel plot shows the commonality in African-American adolescence fictions and the adolescent subjectivity is constructed.