摘要
《他们眼望上苍》是美国著名黑人女作家佐拉.尼尔.赫斯顿的代表作。该文描写了主人公珍妮通过三次婚姻,挣脱了传统习俗的束缚,逐渐成长为具有女性主义意识的独立的妇女。她不甘愿成为第一任丈夫的劳动工具,也不愿被第二任丈夫作为摆设,她不断地寻求自我,最终发现并了解自我。黑人女性受到种族和性别的双重歧视,只有她们自我意识的觉醒和不懈的追求才能使她们实现自我的完满。珍妮这个人物成为美国女性文学和美国黑人文学中影响深远的角色。这部作品也可以称作黑人文学的经典。
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a representative novel of American black woman writer Zora Neale Hurston.Janie,the female protagonist,breaks the bond of the convention and becomes an independent woman with feminist consciousness.She is not willing to be a tool for work of her first husband and the decoration of her second husband.She searches for her identity and finally finds and under stands her position.Black woman are oppressed by both racial and sexual discrimination,only with the awakening of feminist conscious ness and the relentless pursuit can they achieve self-fulfillment.Janie is an influential character in American feminist and African-Ameri can literature.This work can be recommended as a classical work in the history of African-American literature.
出处
《海外英语》
2012年第15期199-202,共4页
Overseas English
关键词
黑人女性
婚姻
女性主义意识
身份
Black woman
Marriage
Feminist Consciousness
Identity
