安徽三联学院外语学院美国文学课件Chapter 24 Toni Morrison.ppt

Toni Morrison Main Content Ⅰ. African-American Literature Ⅱ. Toni Morrison Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Richard Wright Ⅰ. African-American Literature 1. William Wells Brown, an escaped slave, published the first Afro-American novel entitles Clotel, or The President’s Daughter in 1853. 2. Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s centered around the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. During this time, African American literature developed greatly. 3. Representatives: 1920’s: Claude Mckay Jean Toomer Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues 1930’s: Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Whiching God 1940’s: Richard Wright: Native Son 1950’s: Ralph Waldo Ellison: Invisible Man James Baldwin: Go Tell on the Mountain 1960’s-: Alice Walker: The Color Purple Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon , Be Loved Ⅱ. Toni Morrison Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor . Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Themes 1. The experience and roles of black women in a racist and male dominated society 2. Unique cultural inheritance of African-Americans Works The Bluest Eye(1970)  Pecola Breedlove (ugly 11-year-old), the central character, prays each night for the blue-eyed beauty of Shirley Temple. She believes everything would be all right if only she had beautiful blue eyes. Tragic end (raped by her own father) Sula (1973) Depicts two black women friends from their childhood to maturity and to death. Sula, a free spirit, who is considered a threat against the community, and Nel, a conformist. For Sula