布勒特.哈特的作品再现了十九世纪美国西部地区的风土人情,使他成了“地方色彩”(Local Color)文学的代表人物。哈特的两篇作品《异教徒中国佬》和《异教徒李顽》都以中国移民为主人公,但在对待华人的态度上,哈特是自相矛盾的:他一方面谴责针对华人的暴行,同情华人受到的不公正待遇,另一方面,他所塑造的华人形象是歪曲、片面的“刻板印象”(stereotype),反映了作者和美国大众的东方主义思想。 Brett Hart’s work reproduces the customs of the nineteenth century in the western United States, making him a representative of the “Local Color” literature. Hart’s two works, “Pagan Chinaman” and “pagan Li,” both based their immigrants on China. However, Hart was self-contradictory in his attitude toward the Chinese: On the one hand, he condemned the atrocities against the Chinese On the other hand, the Chinese image he shaped was a distorted and one-sided “stereotype” that reflected the author’s and the American people’s Orientalist ideas.