《所罗门之歌》反映的美国黑人民族文化的选择与变迁

Selection and Changes of American Black Culture Reflected by The Song of Solomon

民族文化是一个恢弘的整体,既是民族感情和民族意识的积淀,也是民族的基本思想内涵和价值观念。美国黑人的民族文化具有一定的特殊性,一方面,美国白人的文化极大地影响了黑人文化;另一方面,黑人文化又始终包含着传统非洲黑人的历史文化观念。《所罗门之歌》通过描写梅肯·戴德一家三代黑人所追求的不同生存方式,展示了美国黑人寻找其民族文化的艰难历程。通过分析《所罗门之歌》,对《所罗门之歌》所展示的美国黑人文化的选择与变迁进行研究。

National culture,as an grand integral whole,is not only the accumulation of national feeling and consciousness,but also the basic ideology and values of the nation.The ethnic culture of black people in the United States has certain particularity:on the one hand,white American culture greatly influences the black culture;on the other hand,black culture always contains the traditional historical and cultural concepts of African black people.The Song of Solomon shows black Americans’hard course of finding their national culture by describing different survival ways pursued by the three generations from the black people Macon Dade.This paper analyzes and studies the selection and changes of black culture presented in The Song of Solomon.