Feminine Narrative Strategies And Significance In Sula

American black women's literature is usually considered as a resplendent part in American literary history; meanwhile, Toni Morrison's works with abundant connotation, just like a great storehouse, play an essential role in American black women's literature. What's more, the feminine narrative strategies employed in Toni Morrison's second novel Sula and women's writing proposed by Helene Cixous, a French feminist, in her The Laugh of the Medusa are different in approach but equally satisfactory in result to a larger extent. This coincidence of narrative strategies between them provides a certain possibility for mutual interpretation from comparative literature perspective. As far as this thesis is concerned, the writer attempts to enter and interpreting feminine narrative strategies and significance in Sula, from feminism point of view, through perusing the text, in order that Cixous's theory can interpret and corroborate Morrison's text mutually and appropriately.As for the structure of my thesis, there are three chapters except the two parts, introduction and conclusion. Through the introduction, the writer presents the development of American black women's literature overall, moreover, focusing on introducing the American black women writer, Toni Morrison, and her great work. The first chapter mainly studies Helene Cixous's famous women's writing, first discussing its theoretical source, then introducing its content and summarizing its profound significance. In the second chapter, from feminine experience, feminine desire and feminine emotions, including the relationships between sisters, mother and daughter, male and female, perspective, the writer applies women's writing to specifically the analysis of feminine narrative strategies employed in Toni Morrison's Sula. In the third chapter, the writer gradually analyzes three meanings, involving the establishment of feminine main identity, the construction of black feminine voice and the reconstruction of black nationality, in Morrison's Sula by employing the women's writing.