莫里森小说《家》中的美国黑人幽默与家园主题

African American humor and the theme of homeland in Toni Morrison's Home

托妮·莫里森的小说《家》延续了她对美国黑人家园主题的关注并沿用了她一贯的幽默手法。《家》中莫里森以美国黑人幽默为工具来厘清美国黑人家园问题,既找出症结所在,又为解决该问题指明方向。美国黑人幽默不仅揭示出种族主义和经济弱势地位是造成美国黑人失去家园的根本原因,还唤起他们的归属感以及激起他们对家园的渴望,并给予他们分辨真假家园的能力和重建真正家园的力量。在莫里森笔下,美国黑人幽默深化了小说的家园主题。

In the novel Home,Toni Morrison has paid close attention to the idea of the home of African American and dealt with it through her humorous and witty writing as she had done in her earlier works. By dint of the African American humor,Morrison clarifies the problem of the home of African American in order to find out the causes of the problem and paves the way for solving it. The paper points out that the racism and the unfavorable economic position revealed by the African American humor in the novel are the reasons why African American lost their homes,and that the African American humor evokes the sense of belonging of African American and their aspiration for a homeland of African Americans and renders them the ability to distinguish the genuine home from the counterfeit one and the power to reconstruct their real homes. The theme of homeland in the novel stands out even more clearly through Morrison＇s writing of the African American humor.