Female Consciousness And Narrative Voice: A Study On The Feminist Narratology Of Morison’s Novels

Toni Morrison is a famous contemporary African American female writer and the only black female writer who has won the Nobel Prize for literature.Historically,under the combined action of "race","gender" and "white culture",black women were "forgotten" and "lost their voices" and became "other" of "other"."Voice" is a symbol of female identity,especially important for marginalized groups.In order to rebuild the subject identity of black women,Morrison expressed her female consciousness through a unique narrative strategy,taking black women as the perspective,and endowing them with "voice" so that they could express their own life experience and emotional experience.This article quoted Susan s.lancer feminist narrative "voices" theory,combining with the relevant theory,feminist criticism theory and narrative research from the Angle of narrative "voices" Morrison’s works,around the "author" voice,"personal" and "collective" three sound model to analyze the writer’s unique female consciousness of "voice" narrative context and meaning and further mining.This thesis is composed of introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction first introduces Toni Morrison and her achievements.Secondly,this paper reviews the research status of Morrison’s novels and expounds the research value and method of this topic.Finally,the authorcombed and related to this thesis research in theoretical terms: words,sounds and the Angle of view,the narrator and the author,author and narrator sound,feminist criticism "voice" and narrative "voice" and Susan lancer’s theory of "voice" characteristics and its concrete application in Morrison novel research in the process of change.The text consists of four chapters.The first chapter,from "the author type" the sound unfolds the elaboration and unifies the concrete work to make the correlation explanation.This paper analyzes the "exposed" author’s voice,the "hidden" author’s voice and the "missing" author’s voice,so as to explore the hidden author’s intention under this narrative strategy.The second chapter,from the "individual" voice to expand the discussion and combined with the relevant works to elaborate.From "open" personal voice,"secret" personal voice and "fuzzy" personal voice to convey the writer’s female consciousness.The third chapter,from the "collective" voice to expand the discussion and combined with the specific works of the specific characters.This paper probes into the female consciousness of the writer from three forms of collective female voices: the form of "round speech",the form of "common speech" and the form of "single speech".The fourth chapter discusses the deep connotation of "sound".Centering on the construction of "subject" identity,the construction of "body" aesthetics and the construction of "discourse" authority.The epilogue summarizes the multiple connotations of the consciousness ofblack women embodied in Morrison’s novels: the writing of history and the expression of national emotions,and the political integration of artistic aesthetics and literature.