互文性对话与批判性反思——评埃弗雷特的小说《我非西德尼·波蒂埃》

Intertextual Dialogue and Critical Reconsideration:On Percival Everett’s I’m Not Sidney Poitier

美国著名黑人影星西德尼·波蒂埃是民权运动时期的重要文化符号,也是第一位获得奥斯卡金像奖的黑人男演员,主演了多部反映当代美国种族问题的电影。当代非裔美国小说家埃弗雷特的小说《我非西德尼·波蒂埃》以互文性对话的方式,再现黑人青年主人公与白人社会的矛盾,通过批判性反思,展示他与其他黑人精英的冲突,揭示当代黑人青年只有遗失自我,才能发现自我的悖论与矛盾及其所体现出来的种族主义影响。

Sidney Poitier, an important icon in the civil rights movement, was the frst African-American Best Actor in the Academy Awards, and Poitier played a signifcant role in many flms concerning contemporary American racial issues. Contemporary African American novelist Percival Everett’s I’m Not Sidney Poitier adopts the technique of intertextual dialogue to represent the confict between a black young man, Not Sidney Poitier, and white American society. Moreover, the work critically depicts clashes between the protagonist and the black elite, revealing the dilemma of contemporary black young men having to “fnd one’s self in losing one’s self,” and thereby questioning the larger cultural and national impact of racism on black people in America.