Morrison Novel Black Oral Tradition Of The Art To Utilize And Significance

Toni Morrison is a writer who rooted in the Black Oral traditions out and out, each work reechoing the powerful voice of the Black oral traditions, in the meanwhile showing the modern style. There would not be Toni Morrison's writing without the Black oral traditions. In the upsurge of studying and protecting "the human's oral and insubstance heritages", it is necessary and feasible that we study Toni Morrison's works from the angle of the Black oral traditions; the Black oral traditions are important heritages and sending carriers of the world nations' cultures which recorded abundant civilization, and it is the developing headsprings of every national culture and the important sign of national identity. As a member of the World nations families, Afro-American created and sent abundant oral traditions, the oral literature, music, myth, folk-stories and tales formed the footstone of Toni Morrison's writings.Toni Morrison used the Black oral traditions for reference in two aspects: first, she used the Black oral tradition as the themes of her novels; second, she constructed her novels with the forms of the Black oral traditions, such as the ways of call and Response in story-telling, devious and nonlinear, and the repetition of Jazz.Toni Morrison did not copy the Black oral traditions mechanically, She grasped the varieties and fascinations of them in her life and writing, not only borrowed the forms of them but also used the creativity of them, reformed and produced the Black oral traditions vividly by modern art ways, especially developed the oral literature, music, myth, folk-stories and tales ,etc. Toni Morrison enriched these elements of the oral traditions with literature quality and made her works surrounded the air of oral traditions, showing the Black's spirits, thoughts, and wisdoms. By these ways, Toni Morrison found the cultural strategies of casting off the cultural margining and the crisis of cultural identity. The usage of the Black oral traditions in her works tallied with the uniformed feature of the Globe cultures' identity and multiplicity, established the foundation of existent validity of the Black culture and refuted the bias of racialism and the opinions of the White cultural superiority.