黑人父性的缺失是黑人文学中的一个重大主题。对此有着亲身经历的盖恩斯在他的小说中真实地再现了黑人家庭中父性缺失这一社会现象,揭示了父性缺失给黑人男性身份的建构所带来的严重危机以及给他们的子女所带来的巨大伤害,深刻地剖析了造成父性缺失的外在与内在原因,并在此基础上强调了黑人父性的回归对黑人男性个体伦理道德及其男性身份建构的重大意义。 The absence of black fatherhood is a major theme in black literature. Gaines, who has personal experience, realizes the social phenomenon of the absence of fatherhood in black families in his novels and reveals the serious crisis caused by the absence of fatherhood and the construction of black men’s identity and the children And deeply analyzes the external and internal causes of the father’s absence. On this basis, it emphasizes the great significance of the return of the black father to the individual ethics and masculinity construction of black men.