论《紫颜色》的民间视角

摘要

In Color Purple, Walker unfolds black women’s folk culture from a unique folk perspective. The folk values Walker upholds are closely related to and can be perceived in black women discourse pio-neered in the novel. In respect to its literary style and language, the novel fully reflects the guiding creation principle of black music Blues, therefore it is a perfect embodiment of black folk aesthetics. If we make a comparison between Walker and LU Xun, we’ll find the former’s criticism of the latter mirrors their different values. As national fables of complex relationship between the loner and the mass, LU Xun’s works are a footnote of Chinese scholars’ enlightenment values in the context of May Fourth Movement, while Walker, as the “defender” of black women, presents folk life as her principal aesthetic object, thus conveying her folk values.%在《紫颜色》中，沃克以民间视角来呈现美国南方黑人女性的民间文化，开拓了黑人女性的话语空间，传递了作家的民间价值立场。在文学样式和语言的选择上，《紫颜色》充分体现了黑人音乐布鲁斯的创作原则。从这个意义上来讲，小说是对黑人民间美学的艺术再现。将沃克与鲁迅相比较，可以看出前者对后者的批评源于二人迥异的价值取向：鲁迅的作品是反映孤独者与大众之间复杂关系的民族寓言，是“五四”语境下中国文人启蒙立场的注脚；而沃克作为黑人妇女的“辩护人”，把民间世界的生活上升为作品主要审美对象，是其民间立场的投射。