女性主义视角下《地下铁道》中科拉命运的解读影视编导专业.docx

Interpretation of Cora’s Fate of The Underground Railroad from the Perspective of Feminism摘 要科尔森·怀特黑德在2016年凭借《地下铁道》获得美国国家图书奖，在2017年凭借《地下铁道》获得普利策奖他成为了二十一世纪唯一凭借同一部小说获得美国两个重要文学奖的小说家本文以《地下铁道》为研究对象，以女性主义为理论基础，试图找出小说主人公科拉命运的成因本文从种族歧视，性别歧视和阶级压迫三个方面入手，分析了科拉独自面对欺辱和不公后的对待逃跑的态度变化，以及对她最终命运的影响；同时本文结合科拉的情感和她所居住的环境，分析了对她命运走向的影响最深的人及原因经过上述分析，本文发现，科拉母亲抛弃科拉，推动了科拉的逃跑的脚步，幸得西泽和罗亚尔的帮助，科拉才获得自由白人对黑人的种族歧视，性别歧视和阶级压迫，让科拉逐渐觉醒，让她清楚若想生存，必须逃跑，重获自由根据美国历史的发展，废奴势在必行，科拉的最终命运是走向自由关键词：《地下铁道》；女性主义；科拉AbstractIn 2016, Colson Whitehead won the American National Book Award for The Underground Railroad. And he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for The Underground Railroad. He became the only novelist in the 21st century who won two important American literature awards for the same novel. This thesis takes The Underground Railroad as the research material, and bases on feminism, tries to find out the causes of Cora’s fate in this novel.This thesis from three aspects of racism, sexism and class oppression, analyzes Cora's attitude toward escape after bullying and injustice, and finds out the impact on her ultimate destiny. At the same time, this thesis combines Cora's emotions and the environment in which she lived, analyzes the people and reasons that had the greatest impact on her fate.After the above analysis, this thesis finds that Cola's mother abandoned Cora which pushed Cora to escape. Luckily, with the help of Caesar and Royal, Cora was free. Whites bully blacks from race and sex. And the class oppression of blacks made Cora gradually awaken and made her realize that if she wanted to survive, she must escape and regain her freedom. According to the development of the history of the United States, the abolition of slave power is imperative, and Cora’s ultimate fate is to move toward freedom.Key words: The Underground Railroad; feminism; CoraChapter 1 IntroductionThis chapter will introduce background, objective and outline of the study. And hopefully this part will provide readers with a basic understanding of this study.1.1 Background of the StudyColson Whitehead, an American novelist, was born in New York City on November 6, 1969. He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Harvard University in 1991. Writing was something Whitehead had done since he was 10 or 11, inspired by the wide range of books in his house. After leaving college, Whitehead wrote for The Village Voice. When he worked at the Voice, he began drafting his first novels. He has produced six novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad (2016), which was a critical and commercial success, hit the best seller lists and won several notable prizes. The Underground Railroad won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. And The Underground Railroad was a selection of Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, and was also chosen by President Barack Obama as one of five books on his summer vacation reading list.The idea for The Underground Railroad came to Whitehead early- in 2000, in the wake of his first book being published. He wrote The Intuitionist while doing reviews for the Village Voice and later as a more wide- ranging freelance writer. His youthful confidence had its limitations, however. When he came up with the concept that would become The Underground Railroad, it was different from what appeared in the final version of the novel. He knew he wanted to write about the channels that helped slaves escape from plantations in the south to the north. He knew he wanted it to include an element if magical realism – in the case, the conversion of the figurative railroad, the network of safe houses via which escaped slaves passed, into an actual subway system. He also thought his principal character would be a young, single man, as he was at the time. That was as far as he got. Whitehead said, “When I had the idea in 2000, it seemed like a good idea, but I didn’t think I was a good enough writer. I thought if I wrote some more books I might become a better craftsperson and, if I was older, I might be able to bring the maturity of some of those years to the book and do it justice. And so I shied away from it. It was daunting in terms of its structure, and to do the research as deep as it needed to be done, and to deal with the gravity it deserved, was scary. And then, a couple of years ago, I thought maybe the scary book is the one you are supposed to be doing.” The heroine became not a man in his mid- 20s, but Cora, a teenage girl following in her runway mother’s footsteps. The most striking section of the book is the intensely realistic opening portrait, of life on the plantation before Cora’s escape, in which Whitehead focuses on the relationships between slaves, so often sentimentalized in shallower depictions of slavery. Whitehead spent a long time on the research for the book, ploughing through oral history archives, in particular the 2,300 first- person accounts of slav。