怀特黑德《地下铁道》的棉田隐喻及黑奴制的本质论略

On The Cotton Field Metaphor and the Essence of Slavery in Whitehead's The Underground Railroad

《地下铁道》在出版之后收获了一致好评,科尔森·怀特黑德也因此获得了普利策奖。在新世纪的美国,一部反映黑人奴隶制的小说为何能产生这样的轰动?种植园的棉花和黑人奴隶一样是作为世界范围内流通的商品出现在美国的,在资本的权力意志之下,黑奴贸易成为资本积累的主要途径之一。在棉田这个不断生长的空间内,畸形的权力不断催生出驯服的暴虐和疯狂的反抗。面对逐渐被遮蔽的历史现实,怀特黑德用自己方式重述了这段黑奴历史。

After the publication of The Underground Railroad,which has received a lot of attention and good comments,and Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize because of the book.Why did a novel reflecting black slavery create such a sensation in America in the new century?Cotton in plantations,as well as black slaves,appeared in the United States as a commodity circulating around the world,But under the will of power of capital,the slave trade became one of the main ways of capital accumulation.In the growing space of the cotton field,deformed power led to tame tyranny and wild resistance.Facing the gradually obscured historical reality,Whitehead retells the history of slavery in his own way.