摘要
理查德·赖特笔下的《土生子》是“抗议小说”中的典范之作,主人公别格·托马斯一改“汤姆叔叔”式的人物设定,转而以暴力犯罪青年的形象出现在读者面前。如果暴力犯罪诠释的是黑人民族显性的外部抗争,那么刻板印象将从隐性的意识形态层面打破黑人民族的沉寂,其主要表现为透过别格的视角凝视白人社会,并由此反观“白人性”。从黑人的视角分析“白人性”,旨在呈现“他者”眼中的白人主流社会,挑战后殖民主义文学中根深蒂固的“黑人性”解说,打破黑人对白人社会所持有的刻板印象,以缓和“黑人性”与“白人性”之间的对抗性,进一步消除两个民族之间的隔阂。
Richard Wright’s Native Son is a classic work among“protest novels”,in which the protagonist Bigger Thomas is not an“Uncle Tom”like character but a violent youth who commits crime.If violence and crime illustrate the overt protest of black people,stereotype,on the contrary,explains it in a covert level,namely,psychological level,which focuses on the perspective of Bigger Thomas to study“whiteness”by his gazing at white people.Analyzing“whiteness”through the perspective of black people presents readers how“the other”observe white people,thus it challenges the ineradicable analysis of“blackness”in post-colonial literature,and changes the stereotype black people hold in order to appease the conflicts between the two nations.
作者
周奇林
ZHOU Qilin(School of English Studies,Dalian University of Foreign Languages,Dalian 116044,China)
出处
《上海理工大学学报（社会科学版）》
2020年第3期244-248,266,共6页
Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology：Social Sciences Edition
