A Study On The "Female Voice" In Tony Morrison's Novel

Toni Morrison is a famous African-American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.She is the first black female that won the prize in history.Toni Morrison wrote 11 novels in her life,whose novels targeted to black women for trials,in order to express their effort to find relief,discover themselves,as well as get rid of spiritual enslavement injury,which have had a great influence in the history of American literature.The article uses the theory of feminist narratology such as Susan S.Lanser to explain and study the narrative voice and authority in Morrison's fictions,at the same time,explores how the black women's voice sent out under the control of the white and black men.This thesis is divided into introduction,text and conclusion.The main text is composed of three chapters.The introduction introduces the research methods of feminist narratology firstly,which as an important branch of classical narratology,combined to the narratology and feminsim.Not only it emphasis on text,but also attention to the social and history.On the second,it summarizes the current research status of Morrison's novels at home and abroad to clarify the importance and necessity of the research in this article.The first chapter combs the concept of “voice”.First,trace the roots of the female “voice” in the narrative concept,which appeared in Gérard Genette's Narrative Discourse and with the development of James Phelan and others,Susan S.Lanser officially proposed the “voice” of female.Secondly,to explain Lanser's classification of “voice” in Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice,which include authorial voice,personal voice and communal voice.Finally,it will get a brief summary of the type of “voice” in Morrison's 11 novels.The second chapter analyzes the strategies of female voice in Morrison's novels,which used lots of technique of expression such as focalization,“paradoxical” paralipsis,indistinct,free indirect speech,from three aspects that the means of women's narrative,unique perspectives,and obscure language to explore how Morrison can express the black women's ideas,thoughts and actions in a society dominated by white people and their culture.The third chapter explores how the authority of women was formed between the author and the reader.First,it will take the “resisting reader” theory of Robyn R.Warhol,the representative of feminist narratology,to analyze the text and the effect of reading.Second,explore the relationship between the author,the text,and the reader,and the reading interpretation of the text of Toni Morrison's novel.Finally,it will sum up the construction of Toni Morrison's unique narrative mode,which has led the third climax of black literature.The last part is conclusion,which explores the contribution of Toni Morrison' novels to the development of feminist narratology and the efforts made for the development of black literature,which improve the status of black women,besides,the Chinese local narratology.