Reconstruction Of The Main Body Of Black Women

Toni Morrison (1931-),a black woman American novelist, is the winner of Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, and she is also the first black woman novelist who has won this glorious prize. She considers writing as a way of thought and devotes herself to describing the missing of black cultural value, the searching of their selves and the seeking for the root of culture. Toni Morrison's novels combine the feature of western literature tradition and that of black race, exhibiting the life of the American black vividly in her penetrating and poetic novels.Morrison insists on calling herself "black woman novelist", and she realizes her historical burden clearly: Keeping an eye on black women, the double-weak group, with modern art and human natural reality, and writing a history of their psyche. Her novels usually seek creative themes from the actual life of the black American women, and penetrate their thoughts and emotions deeply. In her eight novels, Morrison moulds a range of vivid images of black women, exhibits the conflict in their minds with the stress of racialism and sexism, and explores the influences of American mainstream culture and aesthetics upon Africa-American woman. Her outstanding achievement indicates that a new literary category —black woman literature—is recognized in the world.Morrison especially pays attention to the subjectivism of the black American women. By subjectivism I mean the individual's certainty for their own energy and capability, and it is a kind of conscious activity that shows in social practice. Most specifically, it means individuals recognize their own power as subjects, which needs improvement and advancement in some aspects, including social status, capability, life style, knowledge level, personality moulding, and also individuals'struggling for them. Whether an individual becomes a real"subject" depends on whether he or she exerts it completely to make her acts consciously, actively and creatively. Most of the black women represented by Morrison are lack in subjectivism to some extent, because of theerosion of white culture, the absence of parent's love and the oppression of sexism.While describing the lack of subjectivism of black women, Morrison shows their efforts for rebuilding the subjectivism after their arousal. Since there are different reasons for their lack in subjectivism, we may find them to rebuild their subjectivism in different methods. And there is a great distinction between their methods to rebuild the subjectivism. In additions to the limitation of historical situation and personal qualification, results are not always satisfying. But how to mould the new subjectivism? Morrison firms her position of black feminism rooted in national culture. Black feminism is the creature of the development of feminist movement. Black feminist refers to black women, who appreciate and love the culture, emotion, energy of female, especially admire female itself. Besides, black feminists devote themselves to the black race to preserve the integration of it.Morrison insists on the position of black feminism which impenetrates all her novels, and she suggests five strategies to reconstruct the subjectivism: self-love, pursuit for independence, memory preservation, protection of culture, and racial combination. Morrison appeals to the Africa-American women to rebuild the subject according to them, and to struggle for transforming into independent new black women "Subject" with activity and creativity.