On The Black Male In Toni Morrison's Novels

Toni Morrison is one of the most important contemporary women writers in America. The heroes or heroines of her novels are black people. She paid close attention to the fate of the black nation. She wanted to tell us the misfortune of the black people in United States and the black women's state under the serious pressure. She got the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. From then on, she became the brightest star in the 1930s. Her wrote many famous novels such as The Bluest Eyes(1970), Sula(1974), Song of Solomon(1977), Tar Baby(1981), Beloved(1987), Jazz(1992), Paradise(1998), Love(2003), A Mercy(2008) and so on. Based on the special visual angle, Toni Morrison described many stories and people to arouse our thought and reflection about history.From 1980s on, many critics paid more attention to Toni Morrison'writings. Their analysis was mostly based on Feminism Criticism, Cultural Criticism, tragic spirit, racialism, narrative strategy to analyze Toni Morrison's novels. Till now, few scholars study the black male images in her novels as a whole.The objective of this paper is the comprehensive analysis of the black men in Toni Morrison's novels through close reading. Based on Feminism Criticism and Cultural Criticism, this thesis focuses its analysis on Morrison's six important novels. There are The Bluest Eyes,Sula,Song of Solomon,Tar Baby,Beloved and Jazz. There are four parts except introduction and ending. The first chapter construes the construction of the black male in Toni Morrison's novels. It focuses on the history situation of Toni Morrison's writing, the shaping of women and men image. The second chapter will show the dissimilation of the black male in Toni Morrison's novels. The helpless and lonesome black men, the coward and the selfish tyrant. Chapter three explores the causes of dissimilation of the black male at class, culture and family. In chapter four, it wants to reestablish the subject of black male from three aspects, that is, forgetting the history, cherishing themselves; rooting in the traditional culture of black people; absorbing different culture.