评论幽默艺术隐形人 [8]
论文作者:佚名论文属性:短文 essay登出时间:2009-04-21编辑:黄丽樱点击率:13853
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关键词:EllisonInvisible Manhumorand black humor艾里森《看不见的人》幽默黑色幽默
r. Norton indeed. Here Ellison reminds the narrator of his invisibility.
‘Tell anyone you like,’ he said. ‘I don’t care. I wouldn‘t raise my little finger to stop you. Because I don’t owe anyone a thing, son. Who, Negroes don’t control this school or much of anything else---haven’t you learned even that? No, sir, they don’t control this school, or white folk either. True they support it, but I control it. I’s big and I say “Yes, suh” as loudly as any burred when it‘s convenient, but I am still kingdom here. I don’t care how much it appears, otherwise power doesn‘t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. Let the Negroes snicker and the crack laugh! Those are the facts, son. The only ones I even pretend to please are big white folk, and even those I control more than they control me. This is a power set-up, son, and I’m at the controls. You think about that. When you buck against me, you‘re bucking against the power, rich white folks’ power, the nation’s power——which means government power! ’“ (Ralph Ellison 1952: 142)
On hearing the narrator’s threatening words, Dr. Bledsoe got angry and worried. His words are powerful and humorous: “I’s big and I say ‘Yes, suh’ as loudly as any burred when it‘s convenient,” This tells that Dr. Bledsoe is a slave to the whites though he controls the school because he says “Yes, suh” very loudly. He shouts “Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying,” but in fact he is lack of power. His words expose nothing but his inner weakness and pain as a headmaster.
The narrator gives the last words at Brother Clifton’s funeral as an organizer. Ellison composed the words into eight passages. This is the most wonderful humorous highlight in the fiction. Clifton, the leader of the youth of Harlem, becomes a friend and mentor of the narrator. He is a tall and handsome black, and is very influential in his district. He is senselessly killed in a street when police arrests him for his street selling. The narrator uses this murder to rally the people of Harlem around Brother Clifton’s funeral. There are some pieces of speech at the funeral, full of humors and power.
“What are you waiting for me to tell you?” “What good will it do?” “What if I say that this isn‘t a funeral, that is a holiday celebration, that if you stick around the band will end up playing ‘Damit-the-Hell the fun’s all over‘? Or do you expect to see some magic, the dead rise up and walk again? Go home, he is as dead as he’ll ever die. That‘s the end in the beginning and there’s no encore. There‘ll be no miracles and there is no one here to preach a sermon. Go home, forget him. He is inside of this box, newly dead. Go home and don’t think about him. He‘s dead and you’ve got all you can do to think about you. ” (Ralph Ellison 1952:454-455)
The speech starts with questions. Finally, the mood turns imperative. Three “Go home ” are paralleled. The whole passage centers on one word——“dead.” Clifton‘s death won’t “rise-up”. The narrator makes full use of devices of ironing, repeating and paralleling and makes the speech humorous and powerful. This passage expresses the narrator‘s sadness and helplessness at brother’s death. But he is trying to rally and comfort the people around Harlem.
“Here are the facts. He was standing and he fell. He fell and he kneeled. He kneeled and he bled. He ble
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