米丽亚姆·特拉里是南非著名的黑人女作家,1933年出生于约翰内斯堡。在南非现当代的黑人文坛中,米丽亚姆·特拉里堪称首屈一指和难能可贵:永不屈服于恶劣的待遇和恫吓,决不向南非本土外来的殖民势力低头。她是20世纪首位被载入南非国家文学史册的黑人女作家。她的作品集中反映了数个世纪以来欧洲殖民统治给她的祖国和人民所带来的经济、文化创伤,以及后殖民时期“种族隔离”政策下她的同胞们所承受的非人待遇。《穆丽尔在大都会》(以下简称《穆》)是特拉里的处女作,然而它的问世和被认可却经 Miriam Trary is a famous South African black woman writer who was born in Johannesburg in 1933. Among South African contemporary and contemporary black literary worlds, Miriam Trali is second to none and commendable: never gives in to poor treatment and intimidation, and never bow to colonial forces coming from within South Africa itself. She is the first black female writer in the 20th century to be included in the history of South African national literature. Her work has concentrated on the economic and cultural trauma caused by the colonial rule of Europe over her motherland and people for centuries, as well as the inhuman treatment of her countrymen under the policy of “apartheid” in the post-colonial period. “Muriel in the Metropolis” (hereinafter referred to as “Mu”) is Travis’s debut, but its advent and is recognized