Black Women under Double Oppressions：An Analysis of Toni Morrisons Beloved 英语本科毕业论文.doc

Black Women under Double Oppressions：An Analysis of Toni Morrison’s Beloved Abstract Beloved is the masterpiece of the renowned African American woman writer Toni Morrison. Black women and their maternal love are the major concerns and the most important themes in Morrison’s fictions. The themes of loss and distortion of maternal across time run through almost all her novels. In Beloved, Morrison tries to cure African American people’s inner trauma with the black maternal love. Through the analysis of the painful experience of black women before and after the abolition of slavery, this paper attempts to expose the tragic experience of black women under double oppressions. Beloved highlights the effect of slavery on the ex-slaves, especially the black free of serious mental disturbance. Morrison selected the woman who had suffered form racial and gender oppression as their national hero of the epic, committ the task of shaping the image, which is not against national history and the situated authenticity, but also reflects her consistent feminist ideology. Key words: Beloved ; maternal love ;oppressions 摘要 《宠儿》是美国黑人女作家托尼·莫里森的代表作。在莫里森小说中，黑人妇女问题和母爱一直是她关注的中心。母爱的缺失与追寻是贯穿莫里森小说的一条内在线索。在《宠儿》中，莫里森力图用母爱治愈黑人民族的心灵创伤。本文通过对《宠儿》中黑人女性在奴隶制废除前后悲惨遭遇的分析，试图揭露身处双重压迫下的黑人女性的痛苦经历。《宠儿》着重表现了奴隶制度对已获自由之身的黑人心理的严重干扰。莫里森选择种族和性别双重压迫下的女性做自己的民族英雄史诗的主角，承担为民族寻找自我、塑造形象的重任，既不违背民族历史和现状的真实性，也体现了她一贯的女权主义思想。 关键词：《宠儿》；母爱；压迫  Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction to Toni Morrison 1 1.2 Introduction to Beloved 2 Chapter 2 Heroines under Double Oppressions 5 2.1 Racial Oppressions 5 2.1.1 The tragic experience of Sethe as a slave 5 2.1.2 The tragic experience of Baby Suggs as a slave 6 2.2 Sexual Discrimination 7 Chapter 3 Causes of the Oppressions 9 3.1 Social Reason 9 3.1.1 American slavery 9 3.1.2 American Civil War 9 3.2 Personal Reason 10 Chapter 4 Conclusion 11 Notes 12 Bibliography 13 Acknowledgements 14 Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction to Toni Morrison Toni Morrison received