托尼·莫里森《最蓝的眼睛》中布鲁斯美学探析

The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye”

布鲁斯又称蓝调音乐,是美国黑人民间音乐的一种表现形式。黑人们借用布鲁斯抒发内心的不公和苦闷的同时向人们传递黑人的传统文化和智慧。文章分别从文本结构、叙述者和文中出现的布鲁斯乐曲这三个方面,指出黑人女作家托尼·莫里森在她第一部作品《最蓝的眼睛》中大量应用布鲁斯音乐元素,使布鲁斯和文学创作融为一体,体现了黑人文学独特的美学价值。

Blues is one of the primary manifestations of Afro-Americans fork music. The black people expressed their anger caused by unfair treatment and meanwhile delivered the wisdom in their traditional culture. From the perspective of text structure,narrator and the song in this novel,it is discovered that a vast number of Blues elements exist in Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”,which integrates Blues into literary creation and reflects the unique aesthetic value of black literature.