Dialogue Research Toni Morrison Novel

As the first African American woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison created The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved and a large number of works which are about the life and history of the Black with its keen insight and poetic expression. She carried forward her national cultural traditions and used Western narrative techniques and artistic techniques into the text such as skillfully stream of consciousness, magic realism, post-modern and so on. Combined with Morrison’s historical trilogy, this article will interpret and analyze the creation of dialogism of Morrison’s novels, excavate the efficacy and significance of the literary narrative in the text by the classical theory of polyphonic novel of Bakhtin.The fist chapter named the polyphonic novel and overview of dialogue theory is divided into three parts:The fist part explains two concepts of monologue and polyphony in order to distinguish two different narrative modes of thinking between the monologue novels and polyphonic novels. The second part departs from the author’s attitude and position, finding out the new creative position the writer holds when writing the polyphonic novels. The third part focuses on solving the problem that how the dialogue relationship shows in the text and how to get it. After that the article briefly described the polyphonic style in Morrison’s novels, and selected three books called historical trilogy, which included Beloved, Jazz, Paradise as the object of study.In the next three chapters, the author of this text launches a detailed discussion of research topics. The second chapter which takes Beloved as the main example performs the innovation of Morrison’s narrative model from three aspects:the multiplicity of narrative perspective, the pluralism of narrative discourse and the writer’s new creative position hold in the novel. Because of the new narrative features of African American literature, Morrison breaks through the mainstream discourse of white man, pulls the black to the center and creates a real life of her nation.The third chapter analyzes that how the dialogue relationship performs in Morrison’s novels from the perspective of the great dialogue. Combined with three books, Paradise, Jazz and Beloved, the chapter is divided into three parts:parallel plot lines, the symmetry of character relationships and the juxtaposition of space images. Owing to the successful construction of the great dialogue, Morrison draws the picture of the life of the African American for about one hundred years.The last chapter analyzes the two forms of languages used in the monologue and polyphony novels from the view of mini-dialogue in order to explore the dialogue relationship in the internal speech of Morrison’s novels. It can be said that the double-voiced discourse phenomenon exists widely in Morrison’s novels. Without understanding the double-voiced languages in the text the reader can not grasp the connotation of the fiction.In general, Morrison’s novel shows sharp dialogue relationship. By establishing a new creative position, using the great dialogue and mini-dialogue, the writer deepens the ideological theme of novels, makes the narrative of Africa American literature present new feature and style.