种族、暴力与抗议:佩特里《大街》研究

Race, Violence and Protest:Exploring Ann Petry's Female Violence Narrative

本文从暴力视角研究美国黑人女作家安妮·佩特里的《大街》,探究了种族暴力与性暴力、暴力书写与社会抗议的关系。佩特里的自然主义暴力书写揭示黑人社会性暴力的根源是美国社会的种族暴力,黑人女性以暴抗暴的反抗是对其人格、尊严、母性的否定。佩特里在作品中呼吁黑人从心理上抵御种族社会的文化暴力,学会在社会夹缝中求生存,避免走上以暴抗暴的不归之路。

This article analyzes the violence represented in African American writer Ann Petry＇s The Street from a postcolonial feminist perspective to explore the relations between violence and desire, between violence, frustration and indignity, and between violence and protest in this naturalist novel. Petry＇s representation of violence reveals that sexual violence is a displacement of racial violence and that the woman＇s fighting against rape challenges the social negation of her humanity and self-respect. Writing on black violence is also a way of protesting racial violence, cultural violence and sexual violence in the hypocritical democratic American society, suggesting that the black should learn survival tricks of the trickster to avoid such disasters as brought about by violence against violence.