Identity In Song Of Solomon Under The View Of Space

Toni Morrison is a well-known African American woman writer, with 10 novels released so far. She received a lot of awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the US National Humanities Medal, etc. Based on her Song of Solomon, from the view of the theory of space and combined with the theory of identity in intercultural communication, this paper tries to find out the identity and spatial fate of American blacks in the society. The research perspective is for the first time in the study of this novel.The black images created in the novel were the epitome of the black compatriots in American society. This paper analyzes the text in the perspective of space. Firstly, the loss of the home of the blacks resulted in the loss of their identity in American society. Secondly, the rights of blacks were exploited in American society, which leaded to their desire and struggle for rights. They took some violent ways, which was more detrimental to live harmoniously and to find their spatial attribution in the American society. Thirdly, under the dominated spatial representation of the whites,some of the blacks constructed their own representation space and refused to communicate with the whites, while some abandoned their black space and tried to squeeze into the white space, resulting they more confused in identity. Therefore,in the American social space, which is the way out of their identity, struggle, concessions or internalization? Combined with the text of the root-seeking trip of Milkman from the north to the south,this paper proposes that the Third Space of Homi K. Bhabha is an approach of the identity for the blacks in the American social space.The paper captures the typical spatial practices of the blacks in the novel, and combines space with identity to analyze the novel. It provides a new approach for the research of other novels of Tony Morrison as well as of other ethnic writers.