来自边缘的声音:《看不见的人》的音乐特色(英文)

Voice from Rimland:Music Character of Invisible Man

拉尔夫·埃里森的《看不见的人》是二战以来美国最具影响力的小说之一,1952年获全国图书奖。作者凭借对黑人音乐的爱好与精通,试验性地将布鲁斯、爵士乐的精髓渗透到作品中,无论是小说的结构、还是其叙事语言都体现出明显的音乐特色。通过分析《看不见的人》中的黑人文学传统中所显示的音乐特色和对小说中的布鲁斯和爵士片段进行分析,以展示埃里森将黑人音乐融合在他笔下的无名主人公追寻身份的过程当中,揭示无名主人公对其黑人身份的逐渐认同,突显音乐对美国非裔群体存在的巨大意义。

As the one of most important African American authors after the second world war,Ralph Ellison's Invisible man won the National Book Award.The author penetrated the soul of the jazz or blues into his work based on his mastery of the black music which displays the distinctive characteristics in his Invisible Man.By analyzing the characteristics of music and parts of jazz and blues,the purpose is to combine the music into the process of searching the identify of the protagonist and display the self-recognition of his identity that shows the significant meaning of music to the African Americans.