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外国语学院《美国文学》课程 Ⅰ、∏、Basic Information1987 ISBN: 978-037541156 Reading date: Winter vacation, 2012 Ⅲ、Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia[1] Wofford on February 18, 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye Song of Solomon and Beloved,which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Toni Morrison on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. In my eyes :Toni Morrison is a woman who holds a strong sense of responsibility for the black people .She also has a strong sense of the society and the history which become her abundant writing materials .She is a female who is full of optimistic altitude towards life .I do admire such a woman who is full of thought .She use her eyes to see something we can barely see ,she use her inner heart to feel what we can hardly feel .Thanks for her expanding my understanding about the culture and history of the black people Ⅳ、Summary of the novel This story set in 1873 just after the American Civil War (1861–1865), it is based on the story of the African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured. Beloveds main character, Sethe, kills her daughter and tries to kill her other three children when a posse arrives in Ohio to return them to Sweet Home, the plantation in Kentucky from which Sethe had recently fled. The daughter, Beloved, returns years later to haunt the house in which she was killed, Sethes home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati. The story opens with an introduction to the ghost: 124 was spiteful. Full of a ba