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Toni Morrison's Pursuit On The Survival Way Of The Black American

Posted on:2012-02-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y JiaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368491235Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Morrison is recognized as one of the contemporary outstanding American's novelists.She had written a lot of works and had won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. Because diversified racism prevalent in American society, Morrison's African-American black female identity made her situation extremely awkward, she tried to get mainstream social identity, but disadvantaged black national entirety aphasia, make Morrison had to resort to literature to reflect the black people's voice. Morrison depending on the writing as "a way of thinking," she thought: the black and the black literature was an indispensable part of the American literature; Literature and politics were inseparable, all good art was political; she was wrotten for black women etc. Morrison's creation has always sourced the black people's historical and realistic life that was tragic and almost forgotten.Her works comprehensively displayed the black people's history, indomitable spirit of resistance, rich and colorful folk customs and tenacious survival character. However, Morrison was not just displayed the black people's hardship.she'd convinced her works was rooted in hope of cheerful, rather than very disappointed.therefore, her work always concerned the future of black national destiny and survival way.These become her novel a basic theme. Morrison's novels had explored black American nation survival way in contemporary and future. In the song of Solomon, Morrison descript a black young people——milk man's life,traced the existence of black predecessors difficult way.she pointed to the contemporary black had most frustrated the valuable national spirit. So she tried to construct a relation with the black ancient cultural roots and tried to point to one road that faced the black people 's future.Morrison never stopped her exploration.In"paradise ", she criticized the black themselves, she pointed out the ruby town black stubborn conservative and lacked the enterprising spirit.So she Called for the only way to the black liberation relied on the black people themselves. In short, the black people only abandon their persistent ailment, set up the independent consciousness, established national fusion consciousness, keep up with The Times change.Only in this way the black people could not been eliminated by times.We regarded the black people's in the contemporary and future survival way in the contemporary and future as a rooted theme that was a addition of Morrison research field.However, today in the global context, It would enlightened us how to deal with ourselves and others, a nationality and ethnic relations between has important significance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Morrison creation, Black American race, Future survival way out, explore
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