论《天佑孩童》对“隐匿的非洲祖先”和“种族建构”的探讨  

Hidden African Ancestry and Race Construction in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child

作　　者：马艳[1] MA Yan

机构地区：[1]宁夏大学外国语学院,宁夏银川750001

出　　处：《外语与外语教学》2022年第2期122-128,149,共8页Foreign Languages and Their Teaching

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目“基于语料库的托妮·莫里森创作风格及其历时演变研究”(项目编号:21BWW039)的阶段性研究成果。

摘　　要：当代基因手段揭示了种族混杂的现实,《天佑孩童》以寓言叙述手法反映了这一事实。通过比对2010年美国人口普查数据,本研究力图证明莫里森在小说中提到的20%的美国白人实质上有非洲血统这一隐匿的历史事实,并认为通过黑色基因的显现,莫里森旨在让隐秘的非洲祖先得以彰显,从而证实种族是一种文化建构行为的残酷事实。每个种族的显性基因各异,但隐性基因相同,这既源自圣经,同时也点明黑人基因与白人基因的平等性。Modern genetic research has uncovered the existence of racial mixing,and this existence is further shown by Morrison in an allegorical way in her last published novel God Help the Child.By using the 2010 U.S.census data for comparison,this study attempts to demonstrate that the mention in Morrison’s novel that“20%of white Americans of African have Black blood running in their veins”is a hidden truth.Through her emphasis that many white people have“hidden African ancestry”,Morrison aims to confirm the brutal fact that race is socially constructed.The dominant gene of each race might be different,but the recessive gene is all the same.It means everyone,black or white,deserves salvation.This idea originates from the Holy Bible and it also simultaneously highlights the fact that the black gene is as noble as the white gene.

关 键 词：托妮·莫里森 《天佑孩童》 基因 童年创伤 隐匿的非洲祖先 

分 类 号：I06[文学—文学理论]