Toni Morrison’s Novels On The Exploration Of Black Americans Identity

Toni Morrison is a highly responsible African American woman writer.She has always been committed to examining the survival of black Americans,and to explore the future fate of black Americans.Morrison tells about the suffering and misfortune of black Americans,and deeply exposes the persecution and suppression of black people by racism in the United States.Toni Morrison believes that the long-standing racial discrimination in the United States makes it difficult for blacks to form a sound self-consciousness.Black Americans don’t know themselves,they’ re ignorant of their identity.They lack national self-confidence and pride,and they do not produce cultural identity and national cohesion.This state of ignorance has increasingly become a huge obstacle for black people to integrate into American society and move towards the future.Toni Morrison sharply criticizes the defects and shortcomings of black Americans,calls on black Americans to overcome their numbness and inertia,and demands that black Americans shoulder the mission of liberating themselves.Toni Morrison,while showing the identity dilemma of black Americans,shows the difficult course of black Americans seeking identity.The main part of the article has three chapters.The first chapter mainly analyzes the revelation of black lost identity in Toni Morrison’s works.The author believes that Toni Morrison explores the reasons why black Americans fall into identity dilemma from four aspects: the lack of black self-consciousness,the deprivation of black voice,the lack of black traditional culture and the internal contradictions of black communities.The second chapter is mainly about Toni Morrison’s exploration of black American identity.Toni Morrison believes that African Americans are the fundamental force to solve the problems of the black nation itself.In her opinion,black people should first overcome their inferiority complex,build up national confidence,develop self-awareness and gain self-awareness.Second,she works to restore the history of black people being rewritten by white people.By writing their own history,black people can look back on history,walk out of the shadow of history and realize spiritual liberation.It was also an important step in black Americans’ search for identity.Moreover,Toni Morrison uses the black traditional cultural elements in her works to achieve the purpose of reproducing the traditional culture of the black nation,which is also a key step for the African Americans to recover the "root" of their identity.Finally,the internal solidarity of the black community can provide the spiritual support for black people to search for identity and enhance their national cohesion and self-confidence.The third chapter is Toni Morrison’s discussion of the future survival of black Americans.Through the description of different forms of love,she aims to help the black people find the ability to find what is true love.Toni Morrison believes that the black people should use the power of love to heal the spiritual harm caused by American racism.At the same time,black people should learn to love themselves,love everything about themselves.Only by learning to love yourself can we further have the ability to love others.Based on this,she actively seeks the way of black American integration into American culture,and gives her own thinking on how to realize harmonious coexistence between black American culture and mainstream culture.Toni Morrison’s search for black American identity aims to help black Americans get out of the trauma of racism in the United States and further seek the return of American identity.Only in this way can black Americans change their future survival in American society,which is the ardent expectation of Toni Morrison in her works.