从“非黑即白”到世界主义——杰西·福赛特《葡萄干面包》的界限研究

From"Black/White"to Cosmopolitanism:A Study of Limits in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun

杰西·福赛特作为哈莱姆文艺复兴的重要引路人,本该在非裔美国文学史上具有重要地位,却因其作品中的维多利亚式感伤小说特点而被忽视。本文将从安吉拉的越界体验入手,循着种族界限的“消失”、认知界限的重构与身份界限的生成对《葡萄干面包》中的多重界限进行分析,探究小说的政治与社会价值。通过书写安吉拉的越界,福赛特试图否定越界是“拒绝前者、肯定后者”的二元选择。她认为安吉拉是个黑人,同时又是人类文化与情感共同体的一分子,表达了其试图构建世界主义这一新型共同体框架的意图。

Jessie Fauset,an important guide to the Harlem Renaissance,should have been a landmark in the history of African-American literature,but has been overlooked long due to her sentimental Victorian style.Based on Angela's experience of transgression,this article will analyze the multiple limits in Plum Bun,following the"disappearance"of racial limits,the reconstruction of cognitive limits and the generation of limits of identity,to explore the political and social value of the novel.Through the representation of Angela's transgression,Fauset attempts to deny that transgression is a dichotomic choice of"rejecting the former and affirming the latter."She regards Angela as a black as well as a member of the cultural and emotional community of humanity,which expresses her attempt to construct a new communal framework of cosmopolitanism.