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天津外国语大学
应用外语教学中心
英语双学位
英语阅读课
学期论文
中文题目：
《宠儿》中美国黑人奴隶的生存
英文题目：
The
Survival
Of
African
American
Slaves in
Beloved
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摘要
《宠儿》
（
1987
）是普利策奖得主托妮·莫里森的小说，一直被视
为一部美国文学经典。
《宠儿》说的是一个看似荒唐诡异的残暴故事：黑人女奴塞丝在逃
跑的过程中亲手扼杀了自
己的女儿，为了不让她继续奴隶悲惨的命运。十几年后，鬼婴还
魂前来阳间索债。
《宠儿》
的基调是
苦的。它像黑人音乐一样根植于悲伤。
在《宠儿》中，通过三
代人不同的成长经历展现了处于弱势地位的黑人妇女在种族主义
和性别主义的双重压迫下
艰难的心路历程。
莫里森用她独特的视角讲述黑人妇女真实的处境，
使人们可以强烈深刻地感受到黑人妇女的痛苦经历。
关键
词：
托尼?莫里森；
《宠儿》
；奴隶制
；创伤；反抗；生存
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Abstract
Beloved
(1987)
is
a
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
novel
by
Toni
Morrison.
It
has
been
regarded as a classic
of American
literature.
Beloved
tells a brutal story
seems absurd
weird.
Black
woman Sethe throttled his daughter
in the way of escape,
for
not
letting
her
daughter continue the tragic
fate of
slaves. Ten
years
later,
the
ghost of
the
infant
came back to ask
for debt. The tone
in
Beloved
is bitter. It
is the same as black
music
which is rooted in sorrow.
Through
Beloved
,
Toni Morrison shows the difficult process of
growth of three
generations
of
the
black
women
who
are
in
a
weak
position
and
in
both
racist
and
sexist oppression. Morrison, with her
unique perspective, tells about the real situation
of
black
women
so
that
people
can
feel
the
painful
experiences
of
black
women
strongly and deeply
.
Key
Words
：
Toni
Morrison
;
Beloved
;
Slavery;
Trauma
;
Resistance
;
Survival
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Introduction
In
February 18,
1931, Toni Morrison was born in Cleveland, Ohio,
near the town
of Laurent. She is the
second child in her family. She is the editor of
The Black Book
,
which
chronicles
the
history
of
African
Americans
of
300
years.
From
1989,
she
worked
as
a
professor
at
Princeton
University
and
taught
literature.
Her
main
achievement
is
in
the
novel
field.
In
1993,
the
62-year-old
Morrison
won
the
Nobel
Prize for Literature.
Toni
Morrison is the only Afro-American woman writer
who wins the Nobel Prize
for
literature. It confirms her renown and makes her
one of the most influential writers
in
America
history
.
She
belongs
to
that
era's
best
writers
and
is
one
of
the
most
respected black women
writers. She remains the same in modern era too.
Her novel is
famous
for
distinctive
images, rich
feelings and profound
ideas.
Her work
has always
represented
the
black
women
and
filled
with
tragedy
.
From
The
Bluest
Eye
to
Love
,
each
of
her
fictions
has
exerted
vibrating
influence
upon
the
literary
world.
In
the
fictions of Toni Morrison,
there
is a distinct and
eternal theme which can be
felt and
touched clearly:
the tragic
life of
the black people and
the conflict between the white
culture
and the black culture.
Swedish
Academy‘s evaluation on her:
the
United
States
a
very
important
aspect
of
the
real
dynamic
with
rich
imagination
and
poetic
expression.
Beloved
was
recognized
as
Morrison's
best
work.
In
2006,
it
was regarded as the best
American novel in recent 25 years by
ork Times
The novel
Beloved
is mainly about
Sethe. When the black slave was pregnant, she
went
alone
from
the
slave
manor
in
Kentucky
to
Cincinnati
in
Ohio.
The
master
chased
her
through
the
track.
In
order
not
let
her
children
repeat
their
tragic
fate
of
slaves,
she
resolutely
killed
his
young
daughter
Beloved
who
could
just
crawl.
18
years
later,
Beloved resurrected
back to earth and
lived with Sethe,
Sethe‘s daughter
Dan Fu and the
lover of Paul ? D.
She
had not only obtained extra
love of
her
mother
but also
had
lured Paul ? D. She did
anything
to disrupt and destroy the
mother's
life.
The
book
is
full
of
bitter
poetry
and
tense
suspense.
Low
status
of
blacks
had
been
denied
them even the right to bec
ome God's
subjects. However, they don‘t break and
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don‘t t
flex
with the
spirit of
noble
character
who create
their own
God. Slavery and
freedom,
confinement
and
escape,
this
is
all
blacks‘
fate
since
slavery
and
racial
discrimination
has began. It
is also
the eternal theme of black
literature.
Beloved
also
reflects this theme.
In
1998
the
novel
was
adapted
into
a
film
of
the
same
name
starring
Oprah
Winfrey. The analyses and studies of
Beloved
in previous
years
mainly
focus on
the
analysis
of
the
theme,
the
analysis
of
slavery
and
the
study
of
writing
skills.
Each
generation
makes
its
own
opinions
concerning
what
the
novel
is
and
what
it
offers.
My
paper
illustrates
Sethe‘s
rebellion
against
the
slavery
from
different
aspects
in
great details. We can see
the persecution of slavery on their
lives and
their struggling
life. My paper chiefly makes up of
three chapters. Chapter one discusses
black slaves‘
low
status
in
American
society
.
Chapter
two
researches
the
twisted
motherly
love.
Chapter three analyzes
rebellion against the slavery
.
Chapter One
Psychological
Impact of Slavery
In
the
novel
we
can
see
the
slaves‘
tragic
life.
Paul
D,
one
of
the
slaves
from
Sweet
Home,
the
plantation
where
Baby
Suggs,
Sethe,
Halle,
he,
and
many
other
slaves
had worked
in and either been
freed or
run away
from, arrives at 124. He tries
to
bring
a
sense
of
reality
into
the
house.
He
also
tries
to
make
the
family
move
forward in time and leave the past
behind.
Because
of
the
painful
nature
of
the
experiences
of
slavery,
most
slaves
repressed these
memories in an attempt to leave behind a horrific
past. This repression
and
dissociation
from
the
past
causes
a
fragmentation
of
the
self
and
a
loss
of
true
identity.
Sethe, Paul
D. and Denver all
experience
this
loss of
self, which could only
be remedied by
the acceptance of the past and the
memory of their original
identities.
In
a
way
Beloved
serves
to
open
these
characters
up
to
their
repressed
memories,
eventually
causing
the
reintegration
of
their
selves.
Slavery
splits
a
person
into
a
fragmented figure. The identity,
consisting of painful memories and unspeakable
past,
denied
and
kept
at
bay,
becomes
a
?self
that
is
no
self.‘
To
heal
and
humani
ze,
one
must
constitute
it
in
a
language,
reorganize
the
painful
events
and
retell
the
painful
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