Acknowledgments First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the respectable professors and friends that have taught and helped me in my studies.
My profound gratitude first goes to Mrs. Liao Jing, my supervisor, who has generously shared her inspirational and provocative ideas during many of our face-to-face discussion sessions. It is her advice that helps me to know how to complete the paper and give me more advice during the writing. And but for her patience, ceaseless help and timely advice I would never have been able to bring this dissertation into light.
Last but not least, I would like to thank my family and my friends whose encouraging words, self-giving love and support have fueled me with confidence, and without whom I could never be what I have done today.
摘要《所罗门之歌》是美国女作家托尼•莫里森的第三部小说,托尼•莫里森是1993年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。1978年该书出版的第二年,这部小说获得了美国国家评论界奖及作品奖,该小说标志着托尼•莫里森写作风格的改变。
作为一名黑人作家,莫里森的这部小说是以美国黑人为主人公的黑人生活故事,小说中包含的浓郁的黑人意识结合了种族,阶级及文化等多方面的因素。这种黑人意识在莫里森其他作品中也有所涉及,但在《所罗门之歌》中表现得最为突出。本文旨在阐明托尼•莫里森在这部小说中如何从身份定位、文化特色和种族态度这三个层面阐释了她的黑人意识,同时也体现小说中的吸引力。
本文从三个方面阐述了托尼•莫里森的黑人意识。首先是黑人身份的认同;其次,她通过黑人神话,黑人传统文化以及黑人的民族意识表明了她对黑人文化遗产的自豪;最后,她从奶娃和吉尔的种族态度以及对自由平等的追求展现了对种族自由的向往。
托尼•莫里森通过小说对黑人意识做出了她自己的独特解释,既增加了小说的魅力,也对帮助读者更好地理解作品的文学价值和现实意义起着关键的作用。
关键词: 托尼•莫里森,黑人意识,黑人文化,黑人身份,所罗门之歌10117
Abstract
Song of Solomon is the third novel by American woman writer Toni Morrison, the winner of Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. In 1978, the next year right after its publication this novel won the National Critics Circle Award and the Letters Award. This novel symbolizes the change of Toni Morrison’s writing style.
This novel of Morrison, a black writer, is based on the black’s life story of American blacks and it contains deep black consciousness made up of race, class, culture among many other factors. Morrison’s many other novels also involve this black consciousness, but the idea of black consciousness is most concentrated in the Song of Solomon. This paper aims to clarify the way Morrison explains her black consciousness through identity positioning, cultural features and racial attitude in this novel and also show the charming of the novel.
This paper clarifies Toni Morrison’s black consciousness through three aspects. Firstly, she accepts the black identity. Secondly, she indicates her proud for black cultural heritages through the black myth, the black traditional culture and the black national consciousness. Finally, she uses the racial attitude between Milkman and Guitar, and Milkman pursues for freedom and equality to show her desire for racial freedom.
Toni Morrison makes her own unique explanation on black consciousness and adds the charming of the novel by writing the most familiar world she lives. It plays an important role in helping readers to understand better the literary value and realistic significance of this work.
Key words: Toni Morrison, black consciousness, black culture, black identity, Song of Solomon
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Acknowledgements.i
摘要ii 剖析《所罗门之歌》中的黑人意识 :http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_9081.html