Expressivism, Pluralism, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “A Suggestion on the Negro Problem”

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN AMERICAN LITERARY REALISM Pub Date : 2022-12-11 DOI:10.5406/19405103.55.2.03
Philipp Löffler
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Throughout most of her career, Charlotte Perkins Gilman advocated a race-based nationalism she most clearly expressed in her 1922 poem “The Melting Pot.” The poem uses the analogy between different races and different cooking ingredients to suggest that inter-racial mixing—“when all of the ingredients here should comingle”—will inevitably threaten the nation’s social well-being. For what is produced in a melting pot in which the most diverse elements are carelessly combined is surely not a delicious “soup” or a “good cake” but “swill” or kitchen garbage fed to pigs. “The Melting Pot” insists both on the imperative to protect the integrity of distinct races and on the inferiority of multi-racial social communities.1
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表现主义、多元主义与夏洛特·帕金斯·吉尔曼的《关于黑人问题的建议》
在她的大部分职业生涯中,夏洛特·帕金斯·吉尔曼(Charlotte Perkins Gilman)主张以种族为基础的民族主义,她在1922年的诗《大熔炉》(The Melting Pot)中最清楚地表达了这一点。这首诗用不同种族和不同烹饪材料之间的类比来表明,种族间的混合——“当这里所有的成分都应该融合在一起时”——将不可避免地威胁到国家的社会福祉。因为在一个大熔炉里,各种各样的元素不经意地结合在一起,产生的肯定不是美味的“汤”或“好蛋糕”,而是喂猪的“泔水”或厨房垃圾。《大熔炉》既强调必须保护不同种族的完整性,又强调多种族社会共同体的劣等性
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期刊介绍: For forty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors from this key transition period in American literary history, including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and many others, is discussed in articles, book reviews, critical essays, bibliographies, documents, and notes on all related topics. Each issue is also a valuable bibliographic resource.
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