生存的夹缝 执着的爱——论《宠儿》中爱的表达

Pursuing Love in Cracks: Different Expressions of Love in Beloved

爱是托尼·莫里森小说创作的一贯主题。在《宠儿》这部作品中,莫里森在揭露美国万恶的奴隶制的同时,更多的是表现了黑人同胞与生俱来的爱的天性。通过分析小说中两性之爱、血亲之爱、自爱与友爱等爱的表达,我们可以了解美国黑人如何在生存的夹缝中坚守艰难的求爱之旅。而作者也正是通过爱的多方位的表达,弘扬着黑人同胞爱的传统,呼唤着整个社会回归本真。

Love is always the theme of the novels written by Toni Morrison.In Beloved,Morrison exposes the inborn love nature of the blacks while strongly denouncing the evil slave system.Though analyzing different love expressions of love between couples,love between parents and kids,self love and love among people,the paper illustrates the blacks’ hard trip of pursuing love in the cracks of life.The author eulogies the fine tradition of brotherhood among the blacks and calls the returning to social reality through the different expression of love.