19世纪后期新奥尔良的种族重构——凯特·肖邦的小说《觉醒》中的种族主义思想分析

Reconstruction of Race in New Orleans of the Late 19th Century:Reading and Analyzing Racism in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

19世纪后期,美国南部最突出的种族问题是奴隶制废除以后白人与黑人之间的关系问题,而南部重镇新奥尔良的种族问题因其格外复杂而尤为突出。以这一时期的新奥尔良作为故事背景的小说《觉醒》,集中体现了当时围绕种族问题所展开的社会性和政治性斗争,回应了新奥尔良所面临的种族难题。对小说文本的细节进行分析可以揭示,该作品不仅捕捉到了新奥尔良克里奥尔社会的种族偏见,而且其本身就是建构种族身份和加固种族偏见的工具。

In the late 19 th century, the most prominent racial problem in the American South was the relationship between whites and blacks after the abolition of slavery. In New Orleans, an important southern city, racial problems were even more conspicuous, because of their complexity. Taking this period of New Orleans as its story background, Kate Chopin＇s novel The Awakening reflects the social and political struggles around race issues at that time, and responds to the racial problems that confront New Orleans. A close reading and an analysis of the details in the text will reveal that the novel not only repeatedly captures the racism of the Creole society of New Orleans, but functions as an instrument to construct racial identity and solidify racial prejudice.