白人文化冲击下的黑人心灵--解读托妮.莫里森《

The Blacks’ Soul under Impact of White Culture:on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

Abstract

Toni Morrison, the Noble Prize winner in 1993, is one of the most talented black female writers. She created a series of novels with black females as the protagonist. The Bluest Eye published in 1970 was her first and one of the most important novels .This thesis focuses on interpreting the blacks’ soul under impact of the white dominant culture by analyzing the black images in The Bluest Eye. It is composed of three parts. The first part generalizes two kinds of alienated blacks under the influence of white culture: “blacks of whiten-themselves” and “blacks of split-personalities”. The second part mainly expounds the loss and perplexity of the blacks’ soul under impact of white culture: They adored white culture and considered “white is beauty”; at the same time, they lost their own characteristics consequently. By analyzing the past, the living present and the future of the blacks, the last part concludes that the practical and sensible way for the blacks to survive in white culture is to maintain the ethical heritage and seek for confidence in their own culture.

Key Words: Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye; black; white; soul

摘  要

托妮•莫里森是20世纪最有才华的黑人女性作家之1，她创作了1系列以黑人女性为题材的作品并获得了诺贝尔文学奖。其中，出版于1970年的《最蓝的眼睛》是她的第1部也是最为重要的作品之1。本文即是通过分析《最蓝的眼睛》中的黑人形象来阐释白人文化冲击下的黑人心灵。分为3个部分：第1部分归纳了白人文化影响下两类异化自我的黑人形象：“白化自我的黑人”和“人格分裂的黑人”。第2部分主要阐述了在白人文化的影响下黑人心灵的迷失与困惑。1方面,他们崇拜白人文化，认为“白人是美的”；而在追捧他者文化的同时也因此而丧失了自我。最后1部分则从黑人的历史、现状和未来3个角度，指出美国黑人只有尊重和继承民族文化价值和审美观，在民族传统中寻求信心和力量，才能在白人文化为主流的美国社会中健康生存。

关键词：托妮•莫里森、《最蓝的眼睛》、黑人、白人、心灵

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