切斯纳特是美国第一个享有声誉的黑人作家和黑人文学的重要开拓者。他的小说围绕战后南方的种族问题,第一次真实地展现了南方黑人的生活,描写了南方黑人文化及北方黑人中产阶级的生活。本文分析与探讨了小说中触及的混血儿这个敏感而禁忌的话题,用当代后殖民主义理论阐释了这些混血儿追求白人文化,却永远摆脱不了黑皮肤的外壳,由此而造成的身份困惑与心灵灾难。 Chestnut is America’s first reputable black writer and an important pioneer of black literature. For the first time, his novel focuses on the racial problems in the south after the war. It shows the life of the blacks in the South and depicts the life of the blacks in the South and the black middle class in the North. This article analyzes and explores the sensitive and taboo topics involved in the novels and expounds these biracial pursuits of white culture with contemporary post-colonialism theory, but never escape from the dark skin, resulting in identity confusion and spiritual disaster .