非裔美国人的文化身份常显现出两种倾向:一是融入思想,希望被白人主流社会接纳;二是强调其黑人性,凸显本民族文化,激发种族自豪感、增强种族凝聚力,势与白人种族主义分庭抗争。在《已知世界》中,琼斯的基调偏向后者,他笔下的女主人公卡尔多尼亚突显出那不为人知的黑暗世界里,非裔美国女性的身份建构比男性还要复杂和尴尬得多,她建构文化身份的过程也是满足自身欲望的过程,充满来自家庭、社会的压力、苦难,还有内心的欲望。 African American cultural identity often shows two tendencies: one is to integrate thoughts and hopes to be accepted by the white mainstream society; the other is to emphasize the blackness, highlighting the national culture, inspire ethnic pride and enhance ethnic cohesion, Racist chambers fight. In the “known world,” Jones’s tone is biased towards the latter, and his heroine Caldonia highlights the dark, dark world where African American women are more complex and embarrassing than men The process of constructing her cultural identity is also a process of satisfying her own desires. She is full of pressure, suffering and inner desires from her family and society.