Absence And Alienation Of Love

As the first African American woman winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison is the most noteworthy writer in contemporary African American literature. She has exerted profound influence upon the American and even the whole literary world with her eight excellent novels, some collections of insightful essays, a play and children's books. Her great achievement in both fictional work and literary criticism has turned her into the"beloved"of both critics and readers. Her novels are always widely appreciated and highly evaluated for both their profound themes and unique artistic excellence. As a writer with both black and feminine identity, she attempts to represent and reconstruct through her own perception and interpretation the black presence and history which is maliciously discriminated, alienated and distorted by the dominant white culture and ideology. Moreover, she makes every effort to reestablish black literary discourse to accordingly rectify history and memory and empower the black people in their resistance to the domination and oppression from white culture and ideology. She earnestly appeals to the folks of her race to take root in the fertile soil of their own traditions and culture, to heal their emotional, psychological and cultural wound and to reconstitute black consciousness.This thesis intends to concentrate on her first novel The bluest Eye which recounts the tragic story of a black girl who suffers a lot from the destruction impacts of the dominant white ideology and culture. Approaching from the cultural perspective, this thesis mainly offers a careful observation of the manifestation of the phenomenon of the absence and alienation of the various forms of love as exposed in this novel and intends to tentatively explore how and why love becomes alienated and lost and what tragic and damaging impacts it has produced on the characters'life, inner world and their culture.This thesis consists of six parts, among which the first and the last parts are introduction and conclusion, the rest (chapter one to chapter four) is the body of the...