A Study On African Mythical Writing In Fictions Of Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison,an Afro-American authoress,whose works possess of the multicultural feature of fusion of African traditional ideology and American mainstream culture.Throughout Morrison’s novels,African mythical writing is directly related to consciousness of problems at various periods.Besides,the distribution and the adoption of African mythical writing in her fictions demonstrated a tendency of center to borderline,purpose to measure,and many to few,and out of that offered a glimpse of changing of creation idea of Morrison,and historical experience and identity transformation of Afro-American.Firstly,investigate into different kinds of African mythical writing in Morrison’s fiction,from prototype of character,ritual and motif.Through sorting the relationship between text and prototype,revealed three main purposes of the applying of prototypes,which are in opposition to white aesthetics,attempt on root-seeking,and disclosure of historical details.Secondly,construct three-dimensional system of coordinate to assist in interpretation of mythical writing in fictions,in other words,by placing text in three interactional views,which refers to problem,history and narrative,to analyze intensively features of Morrison’s writing techniques,which is "mobile problem","black history",and "mythical narrative".Thirdly,study on African mythical writing motive and significance of the novels,and then discovered that the writing significance is a triple searching based on dark skin: searching for physical and spiritual freedom,identity searching to get rid of their cultural orphan status,searching of equality related to all humankind.African mythical writing and meaning searching within Morrison’s novels are the epitome of thought for Afro-American.Morrison’s works could offer a better perspective to concern complicated cultural phenomenon in the United State at present,and to observe cultural conflict and fusion in the context of globalization.