Toni Morrison's Sula In The Eyes Of American And Chinese Critics In The Recent Decade

Toni Morrison (1931-) as one of the most prominent novelists in contemporary American literature, is so far the first and the only Afro-American women writer who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993). Toni Morrison tries hard to protect and carry forward black culture. She revises the tendency and the habit of having males as protagonists in literary creation and begins to observe and judge the world from the perspective of the black women so as to make their life experience and feeling really be tested and expressed. She portrays vivid black women characters, who have never occured before in other black writers'writings. Through the portrayal of the black women images who always overturn the tradition, Toni Morrison points to the inside of the black females, and at the same time reveals finely and deeply the heartfelt wishes of the black women under racial and sexual oppression.Toni Morrison is a productive writer to some extent and so far she has produced nine novels, a tale, a paly and a collection of essays. Sula, Toni Morrison's second novel, published in 1973, holds an important position in her writings and its publication stirred American literary field because of the special and rebellious image—Sula, who greatly gave rise to people's surprise and the critics' comments. In 1975, it was Sula that made Morrison get a nomination for the National Book Award and Ohioana Book Award and the novel was also highly praised by the Nobel Prize committee for it's unique style and vivid characters.This thesis is a research review.lt aims to analyse the extensive literature of Sula both in America and in China.It compares the two countries'research from the perspectives of research subjects, research content and critical approaches, to exploe the features and trends of Sula's research in America and China and reveals the existing problems in view of the above.Through careful analysis and comparison, the thesis arrives at the conclusion that the research subjects are more diversified, the research content is more inclusive and the critical approaches are more comprehensive in America.