从《喧哗与骚动》中的黑白世界看南方种族的未来

On the Racial Future of American South Based on the Black and White World in The Sound and the Fury

《喧哗与骚动》是诺贝尔文学奖获得者,美国南方文艺复兴代表作家威廉·福克纳最富创造性的作品之一,福克纳在该小说中第一次对种族问题进行了深入探讨。本文从文化研究和文本分析的角度出发,对小说中白人角色和黑人角色的种族关系进行分析。通过分析指出新的时代背景下白人和黑人的主场地位已经发生了变化,小说中的黑人拥有了主观能动性并且在一定程度上掌控了白人的生活,颠覆了传统意义上白人和黑人的主仆关系。这种变化昭示了南方种族关系的未来,寄托了作者对民主平等的种族关系的美好愿望。

The Sound and the Fury is one of the most creative works of William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize winner as well as the representative writer of southern renaissance. It is in this novel that Faulkner, for the first time, probed into the racial issue. This paper analyzes the racial relationship between the white characters and black characters in this novel from the perspective of cultural study and text analysis. This paper points out that in terms of hosting status, white people and black people have changed their position under the new historical background: in this novel, black people gained agency and controlled white people' s life to a certain degree, overturning the traditional master-servant relationship between the white and the black. This change foretells the future of the racial relationship in American South and contains Faulkner' s best wishes for a democratic and equal racial relationship.