Quilting-A Brief Study Of Tony Morrison's Narrative Strategies

The Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison is one of the most influential contemporary writers in the United States. Her literary writings have a lot in common with the process of piercing quilts. They take the artistic form of quilt and represent a unique artistic style and rich aesthetic implications. Based on Morrison's novels, the present thesis analyzes the aesthetic implications of quilting from the aspects of Morrison's literary production's background and thesis, structure, multiple points of view and polyponic voices.The first chapter introduces the history as well as the aesthetic implication of making quilts and its impact on female literature, especially the creation of novels. The second one makes an assessment of the aesthetic implications from the aspects of her works' themes. Her literary works truthfully depict the black society and portray the history of social development as well as its unique culture and each of the works describes diverse aspects of the society. The relation between the respective novels and all her literary production is similar to the macerated favric and the quilt. The third chapter analyzes another implication from the angle of fragmented and patched structures and nonchronological time order. In her respective literary production, she tailors the writing materials into different patches and fragments according to a certain mode and reconstructs the materials by nonchronological time order. The forth chapter makes an analysis of the implication of "piercing the quilt" from the aspects of multipul points of view and polyponic voices, which enrich the literary ways of expression that have helped to embody a particular aesthetic meaning and artistic value. Last and not the least, the fifth chapter points out that her unique writing style, which is characterized by the above-mentioned traits, results in compound layers of her literary production's structure and defamiliarization of the content to the readers that keep a distance between readers and the novel and thus cause readers' better understanding of the novel and their more active involvement in the reading.