《宣叙》中美国黑人女性的自我解构和重建黑人女性_英语论文

The Deconstruction And Reconstruction Of American Black Females: A Case Of Recitatif

摘要

《宣叙》是美国黑人女作家托尼莫里森唯一的短篇小说，很好地体现了莫里森的写作特点，展示了现代美国黑人女性自我解构和重建的过程。该小说讲述了一个黑人女孩和一个白人女孩从孩童时代到成年时期的友情故事，过程曲折波澜，帮助黑人更好地正视历史、构建未来。贯穿全文的是黑人女孩在与白人女孩交往下所产生的种族意识，艰难的解构和重建过程。本文试图探讨莫里森对于美国黑人的成长和黑人文化的出路的思考。首先，本文对作者莫里森和小说《宣叙》作了简单的介绍。其次，分析了黑人女孩由童年时代到两人成年后几次重逢的转变，包括黑人女性种族意识的觉醒和复杂的内心斗争，描述了其在面对与白人女性的友情和种族问题时候艰难的自我解构过程。最后记录了两个女主人公的和解过程，表达了莫里森对黑白文化融合的态度，阐述了莫里森对种族平等和文化融合的永恒追求。

关键词：种族；黑人女性；解构；文化融合

Abstract

American black female writer Toni Morrison’s only short story Recitatif quite explicitly manifests the deconstruction and reconstruction of modern American black females. The story narrates a friendship of a black girl and a white girl from childhood to womanhood, helping black people a lot to envisage history and to build future. Embodied in the whole story is the black girl’s racial consciousness, struggling deconstruction and reconstruction with the white girl. This paper attempts to probe into Morrison’s thoughts about black people’s and black culture’s way out. This paper firstly gives a brief introduction of Toni Morrison and the short story Recitatif. Then it points out the black female’s transformations from childhood to the following reunions, including awareness of racial consciousness and complicated inner struggle of the black woman, depicting a tough process of self-deconstruction when faced with friendship and ethnic issue. Finally, this paper records the reconciliation of the two protagonists and expresses Morrison’s positive attitude towards cultural blending. It draws the conclusion that Toni Morrison is always calling for ethnic equality and cultural integration.

Key Words: Race, Black Female, Reconstruction, Cultural Blending

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abstract (Chinese) ii

Abstract (English) iii

Introduction 1

Chapter One Awareness of Racial Consciousness 3

1.1 Pure Friendship Between the Two Young Girls 3

1.2 Alienation Because of Racial Difference 4

Chapter Two Deconstruction of Black Females 6

2.1 Conflict of Memories about Maggie Between the Two Females 6

2.2 Roberta’s Struggling Attitude Towards Twyla 7

Chapter Three Integration of Black and White Cultures 9

3.1 Reconciliation of the Two Females 9

3.2 Morrison’s Attitude Towards Cultural Blending 10

Conclusion 12

Work Cited 14