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"Sound Works"-Study On The Creation Of Toni Morrison

Posted on:2012-10-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330338961770Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Toni Morrison is a black woman writer of the most important one in the contemporary United States In 1993, Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as the first black woman so honored, she is an undoubtedly epoch-making significance. Study of Morrison's novels in the field of literature research is not uncommon, it is even a focus in abroad and domestic. But about for Morrison's novel of the concept of formation, the concept of novel aesthetic meaning and other questions have not in-depth and comprehensive interpretation, some still not involve.Based on this, the paper tries to on the basis of previous researches,takes "The Bluest Eyes ", "Sula", "The Song of Solomon", "Tar Baby", "Beloved" and "Jazz" "Paradise" as an example to discuss the Morrison's novel view and the cause of the novel view formation,along with novel on black culture and African American black cultural significance. This paper argues that the black writer Toni Morrison as a black cultural awareness, combined with traditional African culture and European and American literature on the impact of her, is her main reason for the novel idea of forming a unique style. View of her novels are mainly about the voice in the novel, that view Include two aspects:one the novel is the art of speech, another the novel is art of epic.Morrison thinks to make a real black fiction,to embody the racial and ethnic culture characteristic of black, the heart of the matter is that the novel how to use language and which language we be choosed. Morrison's novels focus on the African consciousness, focusing on black national consciousness, focusing on black people's history, it has the epic nature of the novel. To adapt her literature, Morrison using black myths and legends, characteristics of black language, polyphonic and blended in black music element, show black people voice and reconstruct the history of blacks. Finally, the paper analyzes the unique value of the Morrison novel and the historical significance of black culture. Morrison's distinctive creation method lets Morrison novel mammoth blacks in white society encountered discrimination and injustice, rewrite blinded by mainstream society of history, the history of blacks have the important meaning.
Keywords/Search Tags:Morrison, Novel Concept, Voice, Creation Methods, Unique Value
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