《他们的眼睛望着上帝》中的女性形象分析

An Analysis of the Female Images in Their Eyes were Watching God

Abstract

The conventional depictions of African-American women in American fiction can be classified into three categories: Aunt Jemima or mammy, the black mistress and the tragic mulatto. None of these stereotypes is positive. In the progress of African-American woman images’ change, Zora Neale Hurston’ s work is transitional. It marks the beginning that the black woman image goes from stereotype to character.Their Eyes Were Watching God is Zora Neale Hurston’ s best known novel, In this novel, she breaks down the stereotype of inferior black woman and creates new black woman images. This novel establishes the framework for contemporary black feminist literary tradition.
This paper tries to analyze different woman images in the novel. Especially through Janie’s experience of shake off the bandage of both racial and sexual discrimination in her three marriages to search for her own voice, to explore the woman awakening in the man-controlled world and the woman’s outlet on the road to pursue their identity.

Key Words: Zora Neale Hurston; Their Eyes Were Watching God; female
image; marriage; self-fulfillment

摘要

在美国小说中对黑人妇女的传统描述大致可以分为3类：黑保姆，黑情妇和不幸的混血女郎，这些固定不变的黑人妇女形象没有1个是正面的。在美国黑人小说女性形象嬗变中，佐拉•尼尔•赫斯顿的作品有着过渡性的作用，它标志着黑人妇女形象由固定模式转向个性化。《他们的眼睛望着上帝》是赫斯顿最具有代表性的作品，在这部小说中，赫斯顿打破了卑贱的黑人妇女形象，塑造了全新的黑人女性形象，为当代黑人女性主义文学传统奠定了框架。 （科教论文网 lw.nseaC.Com编辑发布）
本文通过对《他们的眼睛望着上帝中》中珍妮、南妮等女性形象的分析，特别是女主人公珍妮在她的3次婚姻中不断的摆脱束缚与控制，寻找自己声音的经历，探讨了处在边缘地位的新黑人女性在男权及种族歧视社会的觉醒，以及在她们发现自我，追求自我的过程中的两性关系和女性出路问题。

关键词：佐拉•尼尔•赫斯顿、《他们的眼睛望着上帝》、女性形象、婚姻、自我实现

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