黑人作家理查德·赖特的成名作《土生子》是美国文学史上一部具有划时代意义的伟大作品。作者犀利深刻的文笔表现出当时美国社会种族关系的现实,触动并挑战了美国白人读者的期待视野,同时迎合了长期受压迫的黑人读者的期待视野,使白人民族放下高傲的姿态反省自己,黑人民族得到振奋乃至从此觉醒。 The famed masterpiece “Native Son” by black writer Richard Wright is an epoch-making great work in the history of American literature. The author’s sharp and profound writing demonstrated the reality of ethnic relations in the United States at that time, touched and challenged the expectations of white American readers, and catered to the long-term expectation of black oppressed readers and left the white people proud to reflect on themselves. Blacks National inspired and even awakened.