呼唤与回应、传承与发展--《他们眼望上苍》与《紫颜色》叙事策略比较

摘要

Both Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker are famous African American writers .Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is acclaimed as Classic of African American Literature . It has established the framework for contemporary Afro -American female literature . Alice Walker is deeply influenced by Hurston . Her masterpiece The Color Purple follows Hurston's black female literary tradition and has breakthrough not only in narrative structure ,but in voice ,language and technique as well .%佐拉・尼尔・赫斯顿和艾丽丝・沃克是美国著名的黑人女作家，赫斯顿的《他们眼望上苍》被誉为黑人文学的经典之作，为当代黑人女性文学传统奠定了框架，沃克深受赫斯顿的影响，她的代表作《紫颜色》不仅在主题上，而且在叙事策略上也追寻了赫斯顿的女性文学传统，小说在叙事结构、叙述声音、叙事语言和叙事手段上更有新的突破。