《他们的眼睛望着上帝》中的族裔和性别阐释.PDFVIP

Think from the Perceptive of Individual -- Race and Gender in Their Eyes Were Watching God 《他们的眼睛望着上帝》中的族裔和性别阐释 YANG Li 杨莉 （新疆大学 外国语学院，新疆 乌鲁木齐 830046） (College of Foreign Languages, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830046, China ) 摘要：本文着重分析了《他们的眼睛望着上帝》中的黑人和白人的角色刻画。佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿以充满 了关爱的笔触，从人性的角度，而不是肤色和性别的角度，塑造了小说中的黑人、白人、男人和女人，没 有任何模式化的刻板形象。本文通过对小说这一特点的分析，指出小说在塑造少数族裔健康的自我认识及 世界观方面起到的积极作用。 关键词：佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿；《他们的眼睛望着上帝》；黑人；白人；黑人男性；普世主义者；宽容 中图分类号：G1 文献标识码：A I have ceased to think in terms of race; I think only in terms of individuals. I am interested in you now, not as a Negro man but as a man. I am not interested in the race problem, but I am interested in the problems of individuals, whites and black ones. -- Zora Neale Hurston (Ford, 1986: 8) Zora Neale Hurston has been highly acclaimed as a rediscovered foremother of African American writings since the 1970s, when Alice Walker rediscovered her and paid homage by seeking out her unmarked grave, placing a marker on it, and producing a variety of essays of Hurston’s work. Her posthumous resurrection makes her works to be noticed once more and are analogized into American literature courses across the United States and also makes her the object of many kinds of critical interpretation. Among her works, Their Eyes Were Watching God draws most attention. The focus of Their Eyes Were Watching God on a woman and its optimistic tone makes it not radical enough and therefore put it at odds with the literati of Protest Literature of the Harlem Renaissance who criticized her of presenting a false picture of peace and prosperity of American black life. And Janie Crawford, the avant-garde woman