Who is the Beloved.docVIP

Who is the Beloved 　　【Abstract】In Beloved， Toni Morrison， through excavating the relationship between female and nature from the peculiar angle of a woman writer， demonstrates the strong desire of black women to get rid of the miserable fate of slavery and pursue liberation and independence.The paper provides a new way of reading the novel by adopting ecofeminist view. 　　【Key Words】Toni Morrison； Beloved； Ecofeminism 　　【摘要】托尼?莫里森在她的小说《宠儿》的叙述中从女性作家的独特视角挖掘了女性与自然的关系，体现了黑人女性摆脱梦魇般的悲惨命运，追求解放与独立的强烈愿望。本短文从生态女性主义的观点解读该部小说，提供了理解这部小说的新视角。 　　【关键词】托尼?莫里森 《宠儿》 生态女性主义 　　As the first African-American women writer to receive the Noble Prize for literature， Toni Morrison drowned herself in the themes of racial and feminism in her writing career.Her novel Beloved won the Pulizer Prize in 1988.Morrison writes history with the voices of a people historically forced silence and denied the power of language. 　　As an interdisciplinary perspective， ecofeminism is a relatively new movement in literary criticism.It studies the relationship of women and nature under the anthropocentric oppression framework.For ecofeminists， nature， women， and other underclass groups are all victims of the anthropocentric dualism. 　　Set during the reconstruction era in 1873， Beloved centers on the powers of memory and history.For the former slaves in the novel， the past is a burden that they desperately and willfully try to forget.Yet for Sethe， the protagonist of the novel， memories of slavery are inescapable. 　　1.Ecofeminist ideas in Beloved.Every major characters in the novel have all kinds of relation with nature， and the plants and nature represent salvation， comfort and spiritual support for the slaves.In Beloved， the tree image on Sethe’s back， Denver’s emerald room， Baby Suggs’ preaching in the clearing， Paul D’s tree brother， are all manifestations of nature.Nature plays an important role in each character’s understanding and salvation of themselves. 　　As a slave， Sethe endured the physica