《人性的污点》作为菲利普.罗思的后美国三部曲中的最后一部,讲述了一个为追求其美国梦而将自己的黑人身份逾越为白种犹太人,最后却为社会所流放,陷入了身份悖论中的悲剧故事。在小说中,罗思充分运用了象征主义手法,采用多个意象,甚至模仿了古希腊悲剧的结构,表现了身份逾越的悲剧。而隐藏于全文中最主要的一个特点就是以圣经为原型的流放模式,罗思将“流放”贯穿到主人公科尔曼的族裔身份、社会身份以及心灵深处,突出而生动地表现了作者对美国社会的身份观:身份逾越不可能带来美国梦的实现,注定是个悲剧。本文笔者从流放传统入手,结合罗思的创作特点与其历史语境,分析文本,看罗思贯穿在文本中的身份观。 As the last of Philip Roth’s post-American trilogy, The Tilting of Humanity tells the story of a man who, in pursuit of his American dream, transgressed his black identity as a white Jew and ended up as a society exiled and plunged into The tragedy story in identity paradox In his novels, Rousse made full use of the symbolism, adopted multiple images and even imitated the structure of the ancient Greek tragedy, showing the transgression of the tragedy. And the most important feature hidden in the full text is the biblical archetype exile model, Roth will “exile ” through to the hero Coleman’s ethnic identity, social identity and soul, highlighting and vividly The author’s view of the identity of American society: beyond the status of the United States can not bring the realization of the dream, is doomed to be a tragedy. The author begins with the exile tradition and combines Roth’s creative features with his historical context to analyze the text and to see Roth’s concept of identity running through the text.