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阿历克斯·哈利的非虚构小说《根》是一部以寻根为主题的著作,是美国黑人民族在文化休克的困境中试图寻找文化归属感的一个探索。通过肯特家族六代人从非洲到美国的生活经历,作者旨在告诉广大的黑人同胞们他们的根在非洲。不过,笔者认为作者在这部作品中寻找到的只是美国黑人在人种学上的根,而非社会学上的根;从肯特家族在美国生活的第二代吉西开始,他们就已经逐渐地远离了非洲文化、信仰、生活习惯,非洲对于他们仅仅是一个故事,一个符号。而且这个“根”也并非事实上的非洲故乡,更多的是他们出于对抗文化霸权所采取的一种对故乡的美好想像。
Alex Halle’s non-fiction novel Root is a root-seeking book and is an exploration of the Afro-American nation’s attempts to find a sense of cultural belonging in a culture-shocked predicament. Through six generations of Kent family life experience from Africa to the United States, the author aims to tell the majority of black fellow citizens their roots in Africa. However, in my opinion, the only thing the author looks for in this work is that African-Americans are ethnically rooted instead of sociological roots. They have gradually started with the second generation of the Kentish family who lived in the United States Away from the African culture, beliefs, habits, Africa for them is just a story, a symbol. And this “root” is also not the de facto homeland of Africa, but rather a beautiful vision of hometown that they adopted for their fight against cultural hegemony.