11、Contemporary African American Novelists.ppt

——“Toni Morrison, who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic inport, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” Literary Career Morrison published her first novel The Bluest Eye in 1970. She explores the transforming power of two women’s love for each other in her second novel Sula (1973). Her third novel, Song of Solomon (1977), won the National Book Award. The Bluest Eyes (1972) In 1940s America, a little black girl, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatr