埃德加.爱伦.坡“为艺术而艺术”的美学理论和文学实践没有摆脱社会经济、政治、文化及意识形态的束缚与影响。坡作为雇佣编辑、评论家和职业作家与19世纪美国文化中心的种族创伤和民族身份危机保持了近距离接触,他的作品利用并解构了当时文化市场流行的感觉主义和感伤主义,以恐怖小说的形式反映了奴隶制社会的恐怖、暴力,并揭示了白人统治者的恐怖心理,在戏仿种族主义的陈规俗套时,质疑并颠覆了“纯洁”种族观。 Edgar Ellen Poe’s aesthetic theory and literary practice of “art for art” have not got rid of the bondage and influence of social economy, politics, culture and ideology. As an employment editor, critic and professional writer, he kept close contact with the racial trauma and ethnic identity crisis in the 19th century American Cultural Center. His works use and deconstruct the prevailing sensibility and sentiment in the cultural market at that time. Reflects the horror and violence of the slavery society and reveals the terror of the white rulers. When they imitate the stereotypes of racism, they questioned and subverted the “pure” ethnocentrism.