自美国民权运动尤其是女权运动以来,美国文坛上涌现出一大批优秀的黑人女作家,她们抱着对本民族的责任感,从既是黑人又是女人的双重身份状态下从事文学创作,为黑人特别是黑人女性争得了诉说心声的权利。当代黑人女作家的作品,不再是单纯反映美国黑人的悲惨处境、揭露广泛存在的种族歧视问题和对种族平等的渴望与抗争,而是以女性特有的视角探索美国黑人的整体命运,谴责美 Since the United States civil rights movement, especially the feminist movement, a large number of outstanding black female writers have emerged in the American literary arena. They are holding a sense of responsibility toward their own nation, engaging in literary creation from both a black and a woman’s dual status, Black women won the right to voice their voices. The works of contemporary black women writers no longer simply reflect the miserable situation of African Americans, expose the widespread racial discrimination and their desire and fight for racial equality. They explore the overall fate of Afro-Americans from a unique perspective and condemn the United States