创伤与救赎——托尼·莫里森的《慈悲》主题探析

Trauma and Redemption——Thematic Research on Toni Morrison's A Mercy

诺贝尔文学奖得主托尼·莫里森的作品《慈悲》反映的是17世纪末北美新大陆的蓄奴制度形成初期的社会历史背景,蓄奴制和父权文化给小说人物造成了不同程度的心灵创伤。他们不甘沉沦而抗争和救赎的过程,揭示了美国历史上白人同有色人种的整体对立的形成过程以及作为奴隶制遗毒的种族歧视现象至今仍然存在于在美国社会的历史原因。

backgroundat its earlyThe Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison＇s novel A Mercy, based on the social and historicalof the New Continent of North America in the late 17th century when slavery institution wastime, discusses the psychological trauma the protagonists suffered due to slavery and patriar-chal culture. The process of their rebellion and redemption explores the formation process of the coloredraces being converted into the antithesis of whites in American history, and the historical reasons for thesurvival of the racial discrimination as a legacy of slavery still seen in today＇s American society.