关键词: 欧洲在场; 非洲在场; 美洲在场; 身份认同; 福克纳

Abstract:

The defeat of the American South in the Civil War not only destroyed the plantation economy, but also the racial order under slavery. The question “Who are we?” haunted people, floating in the South and created a unique landscape of identity in an era of a radical shift from the old to the new. By adopting the theory of three-presence relations proposed by Stuart Hall, the father of contemporary cultural studies, and conducting an analysis of Faulkner’s major novels such as The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom! and As I Lay Dying, the aim in this paper is to point out that, for Southerners with different skin colors, cultural identity is a never-ending process of production. Whether it is the Présence Européenne at the level of power and ideology or the Présence Africaine at the level of time and history, they are only the process of the Southerners of different colors discovering and confronting their collective history and cultural memory. It is only the Présence Américaine at the level of space and geography that provides them with an open platform for the construction of a racial identity that embraces diversity and difference, and reconstructs the identity of the United States of America in the midst of contradictions and conflicts accordingly.

Keywords: Présence Européenne; Présence Africaine; Présence Américaine; identity; Faulkner