《最蓝的眼睛》的反讽艺术

新批评认为反讽是语境对一个陈述的明显歪曲,反讽的描写包含着与字面相反或相背离的含义,蕴涵了比直接话语言说更为有力的悖论和无奈。莫里森在其处女作《最蓝的眼睛》中创造性地运用了反讽这一现代艺术特征来塑造人物,突出了黑人在白人文化语境中所遭遇的生存困惑和心理戕害。借助小说中的人物刻画,莫里森意在指出族人的出路与未来不是心理漂白,而是植根于本民族的文化,坚持与传承本族文化的优秀传统和其独特性。

On the Strategy of Irony in The Bluest Eye

The New Criticism states that irony is an apparent distortion which is exerted on a narration by a context.The narration of irony connotes the opposite or distorting meaning,which has a more forceful paradox and illuminates some people's existing state.Toni Morrison employs irony in her first novel The Bluest Eye to create characters.By doing this,she stresses that it is extremely difficult for black people to live in a white culture and points out that the only way out is to adhere to black people's own tr...