论莫里森小说对黑人"口头传统"的艺术活用

莫里森的小说充分利用黑人口头传统具有的动态性与创造性活力,赋予它们丰富的文学性,使许多作品从头到尾都被口头传统的氛围所包围,表现出黑人的思维方式和行为方式,传达着黑人的民族智慧和民族精神,使积淀在黑人文化深层的民族心理和思想展现在读者面前。对黑人口头传统的运用,使她找到了摆脱黑人文化边缘化与文化认同危机的文化策略,一定程度上奠定了黑人文化合法性存在的基础,批驳了白人文化优越论和种族主义偏见。

Flexible Use of Black Oral Tradition in Toni Morrison's Novels

Tony Morrison makes full use of the vitality and dynamism of Black oral tradition in her novels and injects into them rich literary significance.Her works,fully immersed in oral tradition,manifest Black ways of behavior and(thinking),convey Black wisdom and spirit,and reveal their ethnic psychology once locked in the depth of their traditional culture.The use of Black oral literary tradition leads to the discovery of her cultural strategies for freedom from the marginalization of Black culture and the crisis of cultural identity,lays the foundation for the legitimate existence of Black culture,and refutes White supremacy and racist discrimination.