[摘要]：

《日用家当》是当代美国黑人女作家艾丽斯沃克的短篇小说精品。国内外学者对小说的主题认同趋于一致：主要集中在黑白文化冲突，在白人主流文化社会中黑人文化身份的异化和扭曲，重建非洲传统文化等方面，对两种文化的融合和共存研究不多。本文分析母亲和迪伊对待被子的不同态度和原因，最后得出结论：美国黑人一方面要坚持黑人传统文化，另一方面也要从白人文化中吸取有利的因素来实现黑人文化的现代化，即对黑白文化融合的必要性和可行性思考。

[关键词]：白人文化；黑人文化；文化融合

Abstract:

Everyday use is considered as the best story of the contemporary Afro-American woman Alice Walker’s. Critics at home and abroad share the same view on the theme: mainly focus on the conflicts between black culture and white culture, the alienation and restoration of blacks’ cultural identity in the white culture dominant society, the recovery of the African cultural tradition and so on. There are not many studies on the ferment and coexistence of the two cultures. This paper will analyze Dee and Mama’s different attitudes towards the quilts. It finally draws the conclusion that the black need to stick to their African cultural tradition on the one hand, but on the other hand it is desirable for them to absorb the beneficial things from white culture to realize the modernization of black culture, namely the necessity and feasibility of fusion between white and black cultures.

Key words: white culture; black culture; cultural fusion

1. Introduction
1.1 Thesis Statement
   The selected topic develops through record of a day when a black family mother and daughter reunited, especially to the conflicts caused by the ancestral quilts, illustrating that black Americans hold different attitudes towards culture heritage. This paper aims to show that the significance of the inheritance and cultural traditions lies in understanding the cultural connotation, not floating in form, reflecting black culture and life value orientation through the contradictions and conflicts between the dominant position of the white culture and disadvantaged black culture. Though the analysis and comparison of the two generations’ different attitudes to quilts, the paper shows the right way to develop black culture .On the one hand, the black should master native culture, on the other hand, the black should understand the white culture, absorbing the essence and get rid of the dregs.