The Cultural Interpretation Of The Description Of Amphoterical Relationships In Toni Morrison's Novels

Toni Morrison is one of the most important black women writers in contemporary America. As an African-American female writer who emphasizes her identity of the black and female, Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize owner, continously pays her attention to representing the African-American lives, in which amphoterical relationship as an important part of the black people, also is her main target to describe in her works. The description of the amphoterical relationship in her novels contains deep cultural connotations.From the continuation and loss of the fellowship, we can see two different cultural choices when the black couples face the impact of the white mainstream culture, what the writer expresses is her wish to resist the corrossion of ideology of the white mainstream culture. The challenge and transcendency to traditional amphoterical relationship which manifestated in female's subversion to patriarchal society and male's abandonment of sexual discrimination reflects the writer's pursuit of deconstructing patriarchal culture center. It implies the significance of reconstructing the black ethical culture behind restoring the fragmentized amphoterical relationship through new flight and new community. People's difficult choices during the development of the amphoterical relationship symbolize conflicts between the black ethical culture and the white mainstream culture, so the writer expresses her standpoint of integrating the black ethical culture and the white mainstream culture on the condition that the black one keeps its diversity.In a word, the description of various amphoterical relationship in Morrison's novels indicates the writer's multiple cultural ideal which are the elimination of racial and sexual discrimination, the reconstruction of the black ethical culture and the integration of the black and white culture.