莫里森小说制度化母性的悖论本质与权力危机

A Study On Institutionalized Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Novels

当代非裔美国作家托尼·莫里森在其多部小说中对制度化母性之于美国黑人母亲的影响进行具象呈现与深刻探讨。文章以母性研究为理论参照,通过解读《宠儿》《最蓝的眼睛》与《上帝救助孩子》三部具有鲜明时代特征的小说文本,审视莫里森对制度化母性的赋权性、束缚性与权力危机的逐层揭示与反思式书写,进而论证其与西方母性研究学者之间的对话关系,并探讨作者借以母性话题对重塑黑人种族身份的发展性思考。

In her novels,Toni Morrison presents how the institutionalized motherhood profoundly influences the lives of black mothers.The article,supported by motherhood studies,with Beloved,The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child as the texts,has analyzed Morrison’s dialectic thinking of motherhood and the racial identity of black people,and the dialogue relationship between Morrison and Western motherhood scholars.