论《妈妈戴》中与时间有关的意象及意义

ON THE TIME-RELATED IMAGES AND MEANINGS IN MAMA DAY

介绍了非裔女作家格劳丽亚·奈勒和其魔幻主义作品《妈妈戴》。指出《妈妈戴》通过纽约和柳泉岛两个空间的不断转换,塑造了很多生动的意象:田园与都市;生命与死亡;蔻蔻和乔治;手和倾听。从文化批评的视角解读作品中的意象,分析了这些意象中的二元关系以及隐含的时间意义,阐释了美国非裔人的重要文化理念"过去与现在纠缠,现在与神话和原型交错",揭示了任何一个民族传承自己的精神文化遗产的重要性。

The paper introduces Gloria Naylor, an African American female writer, and her magic realism work Mama Day. It points out that Mama Day creates many vivid time - related images by a constant conversion of the two spaces from New York to Willow Spring： country and city,life and death ,Cocoa and George, hands and lis- tening. The paper interprets the images in the works and analyses the binary relationship of the images and the implied meaning of time from perspectives of cultural criticism, explains the important cultural ideas of African Americans, i.e. ＂the entanglement of the past and the present, the interlacing of the present with myth and ar- chetype,＂ and reveals the importance of any nation＇s inheriting its spiritual and cultural heritage.