《最蓝的眼睛》-最忧的悲剧_英语论文

The Bluest Eye: The bluest Tragedy

摘要

美国黑人女作家托尼·莫里森是美国文坛中第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖殊荣的非裔美国女作家。处女作《最蓝的眼睛》将黑人传统文化与小说紧密结合在一起，以最蓝的眼睛为主线，主要讲述了二十世纪白人文化冲击、黑人自我歧视以及黑人社区互助精神的缺失导致黑人逐渐丧失主体性的社会现象。

论文主要由三部分构成，首先通过主人公一家的悲剧来具体体现黑人主体性的丧失，接着从三方面分析导致这种悲剧的根源性问题，与此同时探讨重构黑人主体性的方法,希望能释放黑人存在已久的悲情并形成健全的人格。

关键词：托尼·莫里森；黑人主体性；丧失；重构

Abstract

Toni Morrison is one of the most outstanding African American writer in contemporary American literature, who has became the first Afro-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for her great creation. Traditional black cultural is combined closely with the content of her maiden work The Bluest Eye, which takes the bluest eye as a thread and focuses on a common social phenomenon in the 20th century that a group of black people tend to lose their subjectivity because of the influence of white culture, self discrimination and the lack of group spirit between the black.

This thesis is divided into three main parts. Through the detailed depiction of tragedy of the Breedlove’s life, the first part reflects the loss of black subjectivity in this family. The second part analyzes the roots of the tragedy in the Bluest Eye in three aspects. Meanwhile, the thesis attempts to present three ways to reconstruct the black subjectivity, hoping to release black people’s sadness existed for a long time and develop a sound personality.

Keywords: Toni Morrison; black subjectivity; loss; reconstruction

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. Loss of Black Subjectivity 3

3.1 Pecola’s madness 3

3.2 Loss of subjectivity as husband and father 5

3.3 Loss of subjectivity as wife and mother 6

4. The Roots of the Tragedy of the Breedloves 7

4.1 Discrimination from both the white and black 8

4.2 The influence of beauty standard 9

4.3 The lack of group spirit between the blacks 9

5. Solution to the Loss of Black Subjectivity 10

5.1 Constructing independent black cultural identity 10

5.2 Constructing healthy group spirit 10

6. Conclusion 11

Works Cited 13