从《宠儿》中的象征创作手法研究美国黑人女性的悲剧与成长.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 17 从《宠儿》中的象征创作手法研究美国黑人女性的悲剧与成长 摘要：《宠儿》是托妮?莫里森最成功的一部代表作，完成于1987年，并在1988年获美国普利策小说奖。莫里森在这部小说中大量运用了象征创作手法，描写了黑人女性在种族和性别双重迫害下的境遇，深刻描述了奴隶制历史对美国黑人带来的无尽创伤与恐惧。本文将解读并深入分析小说中主人公的取名，场景选取，以及植物的象征意义这几个象征意象，探索作者隐含在这些意象背后，不曾直接表达的深意。同时引导读者理解作品，深化小说主题，还原历史的真实。 关键词：托妮?莫里森；《宠儿》； 黑人女性；象征创作手法 A Study on the Tragedy and Growth of American Black Women in Beloved from the Perspective of Symbolism Abstract：As the most successful magnum opus of Toni Morrison, Beloved was completed in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. This novel depicted the situation of black women under the dual persecution of race and gender between illusion and reality. The description of endless trauma and fear for black women was realized through a great deal of symbolic strategies. Based on a systematical interpretation of three types symbols in Beloved—the naming of characters, the selecting of scene and the symbolic meaning of tree, this study attempts to explore the obliquely-expressed meanings hidden behind these symbols so as to help readers gain a better understanding of theme in the novel and restore the genuine history embodied in the novel . Key words: Toni Morrison; Beloved; black women; Symbolism 1.?Introduction 1.1 A Brief Introduction to Toni Morrison Toni Morrison?was born in 1931 in Ohio, USA. She is one of the important authors of African American literary. As a Afro-American women writer, Morrison has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, National Book Awards and so on. She is the only writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in American history. For readers, Toni Morrison not only is a prestigious female African-American writer, but also is a senior professor, a critic, and a senior editor. Toni Morrison lived at the bottom of the society at an early age, and witnessed that black women who lived in American society suffered from much misfortune and humiliation. This built the profound life foundation for her literary creation. Therefore, her works often focus on the