摘要
Toni Morrison, as an African-American woman writer, attracts the greatest attention in recent years. Being the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, she has been hailed as a stand of the Black Women＇s Literature in the 20th century. She is deeply concerned about the spiritual world of black women. Morrison has always put stress on the relationship between individual and community; her idea that what affects the black community can have an influence on individuals is an important part in her books that cannot be neglected. By way of the approach of text analysis, this paper tries to elaborate Morrison＇s important idea that estrangement from the community inevitably means a lack of communal support and understanding, which is harmful to the healthy formation of individual identity in one of her important works Beloved （1987）.
