African-American’s Awareness of Cultural Heritage:Alice Walker's Everyday Use

摘要

Alice Walker’s famous short story Everyday Use reveals African American’s awareness of cultural heritage, which is deeply affected by the“double consciousness”as well as their racial identification in the Civil Rights Movement. Through the ex⁃ploration of the cultural conflict reflected in Everyday Use by relating to the influence on black people produced by the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the discussion of the different attitudes of the mother and her daughters towards their cul⁃tural heritage, the essay aims to reinforce Alice Walker’s claim that any attempt to lay too much emphasis on the ideas of utilitari⁃an return to black people’s traditional culture is shallow and superficial.