论《已知世界》中的身份建构  

Identity Construction in Edward P.Jones's The Known World

作　　者：刘白[1] 

机构地区：[1]湖南科技大学外国语学院

出　　处：《当代外国文学》2012年第4期105-112,共8页Contemporary Foreign Literature

基　　金：湖南省社科基金项目(2010WLH18);湖南省教育厅优秀青年项目(12B046)的阶段性成果;湖南科技大学"英美文学与文化"创新团队资助

摘　　要：美国当代非裔作家爱德华·P·琼斯的《已知世界》书写了内战前美国南方存在黑人奴隶主的一段鲜为人知的历史事实。本文拟探讨该作品中的身份建构问题,认为黑奴们通过重新自我命名、不忘过去和互相帮助等方式实现了自我身份的建构,进而论述琼斯如何通过对历史的想象性描写再现黑人奴隶为构建个人身份所作出的种种尝试。Edward P.Jones's The Known World represents the little-known history that blacks were slave owners in pre-Civil War American South.The paper explores the root cause of Henry Townsend's change from a black slave to a slaveholder embodied in his constant but unsuccessful search for self-identity.It argues that African-Americans can reconstruct their identities by way of turning to their past.Jones,having delineated real characters and incidents in his work,utters black slaves' different attempts to seek for their identities and offers his interrogative reflection upon modern African Americans' construction of ethnic identities.

关 键 词：爱德华·P·琼斯 《已知世界》 身份建构 

分 类 号：I712.074[文学—其他各国文学]