佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿小说中的民俗文化研究

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《佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿小说中的民俗文化研究》：英语博士文库。

内容简介

本书以佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿的三篇长篇小说《约拿的葫芦蔓》、《他们眼望上苍》、《摩西，山之人》为研究对象，运用文化人类学、民俗学、解构主义以及身份建构等相关理论，结合小说生成的历史文化语境，把赫斯顿的文学研究与其笔下美国黑人民俗研究结合起来，对其中的民俗文化元素进行了尝试性的阐释。

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Common among DlacK people at mat nme. A numoer ot mese peopletook drastic measures to escape the feelings of exclusion and passedfor white by means of their physical appearance, thus rejecting theirblack identity. The ex-colored man in James Weldon Johnson's novelfor instance, is a case in point. As a young boy, Johnson's proudanti-hero has never put the question of race in his mind because hehas always considered himself as white before an insensitive whiteteacher classifies him otherwise. The failure of the protagonist ofJohnson's novel to admit kinship with the black community leads tohis final alienation from Afro-Americans.African Americans' anxiety over their racial identity wasexacerbated by the Migration of the Negroes from the Southern ruralcommunities to the Northern industrial cities. Without the ruralSouthern genesis, blacks in the new environment of Northern urbancenters seemed to come from nowhere. Since the Great Migrationfrom the South, blacks have often been taken as an urban problem,a view that erodes Afro-Americans' self-esteem and denies theircollective history. Some of Hurston's contemporaries among theblack literati maintained that the black folk music and behavior wereundignified and therefore became an impediment to the elevation ofthe race. They strived to behave more like the whites than the whiteswho flocked to the clubs and cabarets to be entertained by blackswhose performance based on Southern black folk traditions wasregarded and enjoyed as something alien and exotic. Focusing herattention on the black.

作者简介

张玉红，1972年生，河南太康县人。文学博士，硕士生导师，河南大学外语学院副教授。1989—1996年就读于河南大学外语学院英语语言文学专业，1993年获文学学士学位，1996年获文学硕士学位并留校任教。2008年在上海外国语大学获文学博士学位后回河南大学任教。2009年2月进入河南大学外语学院外国语言文学博士后流动站。本人主要从事英美文学研究，尤其是英美戏剧研究。近年来发表学术论文10余篇，并主编或参编了教参3部，另主持或参加省级、厅级、校级科研项目近10项。