Analysis On Dialogic Features Of Toni Morrison's Beloved

Toni Morrison's masterpiece Beloved is rooted in the traditional culture of America and successfully combines a real story in the history with folk tales among the black community. The novel vividly represents the inhumanity treatments upon the black, their mental and physical double traumas, and also their continuous embarrassment and confusion on the problem of self identification. Unlike other black novels, Morrison creatively draws people's attention to the black women who always stay at the bottom of the society neglected by the white and also the black community. Here, she tries to dig out those historical memories buried deeply in the heart of this special group to touch the softest part of the readers'. Certain numbers of scholars and specialists have done a large quantity of researches on it from the following perspectives as Feminism, Post Modernism, intercultural communication, psychological analysis, Criticism, the comparison among different versions of translation etc, which offer us a lot of precious materials when appreciating it.However, there are still some aspects in the novel which will have a great impact on the current cultural development should be constantly focused on, for instance, the relationship between the current development of the black's unique language and their cultural identification and construction. This thesis adopts a qualitative method and tries to give an analysis on dialogic features, especially great dialogues and micro dialogues of the novel, based on Russia's famous scholar Bakhtin's theories of translinguistics and dialogism. And Morrison's special arrangement on the following aspects should also be paid attention to. They are the establishment of dialogic subjectivity, the architecture of dialogic mode and the development of dialogic space. Here, the application of linguistic theories combined with heated cultural issues to the research of black novels displays the difficult development of Afro-Americans'cultural identity and construction, which will have a significant impact on the cultural development of other similar minorities. Finally the thesis comes to the conclusion that Beloved is a novel full of dialogic features. It realizes an effect of multi-voices and shows the black community's psychological development from getting lost to turning back on the way of searching for real self and freedom. The only way of setting themselves free is to unite and fight together. In this thesis, all the materials and discourses are chosen from the novel Beloved, which is labeled with the marks of sophisticated relations among characters, intricate plots and contagious language. Due to the length of the passage, we just pick out some representative discourses to serve for the study. If it is possible, we will make an even complicated research on the unique cultural figures of the black community under the circumstance of global context with the combination of their cultural identity and construction.