The Mammy＇s Image in Chinese and American Literary Works研究.pdfVIP

US—ChinaForeignLanguage，January2015Vo1．13，No．1，68—74 ， doi：10．17265／1539．8080／2015．01．007 TheM ammy’sImageinChineseandAmericanLiteraryW orks LIMei-qin ZhejiangGongshangUniversity，Hangzhou，China MammiesdepictedinChineseandAmericanliteraryworksbeardifferentcharacteristicsduet0difflerentsocialand culturalbackgrounds．M ammyfiguresinAm ericanliteraryworksreflectthecastesystem basedOnracia1hierarchv andthepatemalisticslavery background whilethemamm ies’imageinChineseliterary worksmirrorscastesvstem ， basedonclassandstratum aswellaspatriarchalsocietyruledbyConfucianism． Thesediffelrentsocialandcultura1 backgroundsrendermammyfiguresinthetwoliterarytraditionsindifferenttastes ． M ammyfiguresinAmerican worksareeihtervirtuousandmilitantmammiesidentifyingthemselveswiththewhite ， orservantstakinghtewhite people’skitchenas“myKitchen”，who， bysodoing，robtheblackmenoftheirmanhoodanddeprivewhitewomen ofhteirpower．MammyfiguresinChineseliteraryworksarethehalf-servants．half - masterswhOc1aim creditfor themselves,privilegeoverotherservantsoflowerstratum andexercisepowerinthenameofhteirpatriarchal m asters Keywords：mammy’simage，differentsocialandculturalbackgroun dscastesystem ， IntrOductiO