拉尔夫·埃利森是美国著名黑人作家、文学批评家以及文化批评家。他重新阐释尼格鲁人文化,特别是黑人音乐,分析黑人音乐家精湛的演奏技巧,揭示艺术的审美性与文化融合之间的内在联系,解构美国社会的黑白对立,构建自己的文化融合思想;他通过对“小人物”的阐释,提出一种自下而上的多元文化观,雄辩地揭示了美国文化的实质。埃利森是当之无愧的早期美国文化研究的开拓者,也是最早将自己的文化融合思想贯穿于文学创作的伟大作家,他的文学创作对由民主和多元文化组成的美国文化作出贡献。埃利森被美国黑人文学界视为美国的文化权威,他的文化批评思想值得更多肯定与关注。 Ralph Ellison is a famous American black writer, literary critic and cultural critic. He reinterpreted the Negro culture, especially the black music, analyzed the exquisite playing skills of the black musicians, revealed the intrinsic connection between aesthetic taste and cultural integration of art, deconstructed the black-white antagonism of American society and built up his own idea of ​​cultural fusion Through the interpretation of “little man ”, he proposed a bottom-up view of multiculturalism and eloquently revealed the essence of American culture. Ellison is a well-deserved pioneer in the study of American culture and the earliest author of his own cultural fusion ideology throughout the literature, whose contribution to American culture, which is composed of democracy and multiculturalism, is his literary creation. Ellison was regarded as the cultural authority of the United States by Afro-American literary circles. His ideas of cultural criticism deserve more recognition and attention.