托尼·莫里森小说的创作主题评析

Creation Themes in Toni Morrison's Novels

托尼·莫里森是获得诺贝尔文学奖的唯一一位美国黑人女性。她身份的含混导致其创作主题的多元,因此她的作品能够吸引不同的读者和评论家,获得广泛的关注。后现代主义、女性主义、黑人美学等流派均从各自的角度出发,对她的作品进行了无穷的阐释。本文通观其八部小说,评议莫里森创作主题的复杂性和其中反复出现的母题,即美国黑人妇女的困惑与自救、种族的苦难、自我追寻和文化定位、爱、历史、魔幻与现实的交替等。

Toni Morrison is the only female Afri - American Nobel Prize winner. The ambiguity of her racial ,gender and cultural identity induces her multi -creation- themes, which attracts the eye of her readers and critics. Post -modernism ,feminism and black aestheticism all interprate her works from their distinctive perspectives, and so do others. This thesis focuses on Morrison＇ s eight novels and analyzes her reoccurent creation themes,i, e. ,female Afri- Americans＇ perplexity and self-salvation,racial suffering,self-pursuit and cultural self - identity, love, history and the migle of magic and reality.