“自造男人”之梦的三重误导——基伦斯《随后我们听到了雷声》对美国男性气质的反思  

Three Misdirections of “Self-Made Man”Dream——An Introspection of American Masculinity in Killens' s Novel And Then We Heard the Thunder

作　　者：隋红升[1] 陈海容[1] 

机构地区：[1]浙江大学外国语言文化与国际交流学院,杭州310058

出　　处：《浙江工商大学学报》2016年第1期15-20,共6页Journal of Zhejiang Gongshang University

基　　金：国家社会科学基金一般项目"当代非裔美国文学中的男性气概研究"(12BWW051)

摘　　要：在约翰·基伦斯的长篇巨著《随后我们听到了雷声》中,主人公所罗门·桑德斯无论在人生理想还是婚姻方面都无法做出正确的选择,其人格也经常处于分裂状态。本文发现,桑德斯所经历的现实与心理困境与他对男性身份的认知误区有着密切相关。种种迹象表明,桑德斯所认同的是美国主流社会长期以来所崇尚的一种"自造男人"式的男性气质,这种男性气质模式最大的弊端在于其评判标准与价值取向方面过度看重男性的外在表现而放逐了内在精神品质与道德诉求。通过对桑德斯这一男性人物形象心理与现实困境的多重展示,该作对这种男性气质进行了深刻的反思。In John Killens＇ s novel And Then We Heard the Thunder,the protagonist Solomon Sanders could not make the right decision both in his career and marriage,and his personality is often in a split state. This paper maintains that Sanders＇ s practical difficulties and psychological predicaments are closely related to his wrong perception of male identity. All signs indicate that what Sanders identifies is a kind of ＂Self-Made Man＂masculinity which has long been advocated by the mainstream society of America. This model of masculinity＇s most serious defect lies in the fact that it pays much attention to men＇s external performance and banishes the spiritual and moral claims in terms of its judgment standard and value orientation. With a fulldisplay of Sanders＇ s psychological and practical predicaments,the novel carries out an incisive introspection upon this model of masculinity.

关 键 词：基伦斯 《随后我们听到了雷声》 自造男人 男性气质 男性身份 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]