摘要
美国内战建国后的几十年里，社会并没像《独立宣言》所述的“人人生而平等”，绝大多数黑人在生活中受到歧视。美国著名的黑人小说家理查德.赖特正是在这样的环境中成长，他的自传体小说《黑孩子》记录了自己作为黑人受到的不平等待遇。隔离是理查德.赖特的自传小说《黑孩子》中的中心主题之一。种族隔离是指在日常生活中，按照不同种族将人群分割开来，英语论文，使得各种族不能同时使用公共空间或服务，实质上是种族歧视的一种表现形式，主人公在成长过程中的不同阶段所经历的疏远与隔离让其形成强烈的反抗意识，最终被迫逃避不平等的南方社会并实现了自己的作家梦想。
本文通过精读主人公不同年龄阶段的经历，找出美国南部社会在教育、医疗、交通、就业等各领域存在的种族隔离现象，并且略论作者对待隔离的态度逐渐由迷茫，恐惧，反抗最终变为逃避，进而试图阐述作者态度变化的原因，得出结论：黑人同胞从出生伊始受到的不平等待遇让他们对白人产生迷茫，害怕，反抗情绪，这才是种族隔离萌芽，比种族隔离制度更可怕的是黑人对种族问题的恐惧心理，以及他们对隔离的屈服与习惯，这将阻碍他们实现自身的梦想。当力量弱小不足以改变社会，英语论文范文，那么只能选择逃离。如果更多黑人同胞能够像作者那样逃离不公平的环境，亦或建立起更多诸如美国北方那样公平的社会，让黑人从出生就受到公平对待，就能避免隔离思想在黑人群体滋生，他们才能实现自己的梦想甚至最终消除隔离。
本文的略论结论进一步加深对《黑孩子》的解读和种族隔离的理解。
关键词：种族隔离，《黑孩子》，黑人，白人
Abstract
The post-war American society did not accord with the so-called “everyone born equal” described in The Declaration of Independence, instead, the black were discriminated in nearly all respects. Richard Wright, a very talented black writer in American literature, was born and grew up in such conditions, and he keeps a record of his miserable experience in his autobiographical novel –Black Boy. Segregation is one of the main themes of this novel, and it stands for racial discrimination. What the author experienced in different stages of life contributes to his rebellious emotion to segregation and to his final escape to the northern society where he realized his dream.
After intensive reading of this novel, this paper intends to prove that the segregation exists in education, medical treatment, job and other respects of southern America and try to analyze the author’s changing attitude towards segregation. At last, this paper comes to the conclusion that the blacks’ unfair experiences made them confused, fearful and resistant to the white, but the reality forced them to get used to segregation gradually. Their ideology of resignation to segregation was more terrible than the system itself. Maybe the author’s escape and success enlightens that when the strength of the black is too weak to start a revolution to change the society, they can try every means to leave the unfair land. But if more cities like Chicago were established at that time where the black people were born equal with the white, then there would have been more black people who had reached their dreams, maybe the power of segregation would have been weakened and even eliminated.
The analysis and conclusion of this paper will further deepen the understanding of Black Boy and racial segregation.
Key words: segregation, Black Boy, the black, the white |
