《紫颜色》中的男性气概及身份建构

Masculinity and identity construction in The Color Purple

美国非裔女作家艾丽斯·沃克的《紫颜色》讲述了两代黑人男性在女性的感召中成长的故事。他们从盲目遵从白人主流文化中的霸权男性气质到建构新型男性气概这一转变历程,实现了黑人男性个体身份建构。沃克以此呼吁黑人男性突破父权制思想和性别歧视的牢笼,从男权思想和传统性别角色观念的桎梏中解放出来,从而建构完整、健全的个体人格体系与和谐的两性关系,实现传统男性气概的内在性回归。

The Color Purple,by the African American woman writer Alice Walker,is the coming of age story of two generations of black men.Their transition from blindly following the hegemonic masculini ty advocated by the mainstream culture of America to the construction of the new masculinity e mphasizes the possibility of changes in the development and growth of black males.In this way,Walker calls on black men to break through the patriarchal culture and the cage of sexism,and to free themselves from the shackles of male chauvinism and the traditional concept of gender role s,to build a complete and sound individual personality system and harmonious relationship betw een the two sexes,and to realize the internal regression of traditional masculinity.