解读托尼·莫里森《宠儿》中杀婴母题的重构_英语论文

An Analysis of Toni Morrison’s Reconstruction of Infanticide Matrix in Beloved

摘要

获普利策奖的小说《宠儿》，是美国著名非洲裔女作家托尼·莫里森的代表作，而该部作品也成为美国文学史上的一个里程碑。杀婴是小说中最悲惨、最惊骇、也最令人深思反省的主题，而莫里森站在她黑人女作家的立场上，以其丰富的想象力和富有诗意的表达方式，并运用后现代主义、拉美魔幻现实主义的风格，对杀婴母题进行继承和重构。本文旨在通过对杀婴母题的剖析，深度解读托尼·莫里森的艺术创作手法，就她对杀婴母题的继承和重构做出讨论，从而发掘《宠儿》中所表达出的奴隶制度的罪恶和黑人母亲深沉浓烈的母爱 。

关键词：杀婴母题；继承；重构；托尼·莫里森

Abstract

The well-known African-American woman writer Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Beloved, which is regarded as a milestone in American literature. Infanticide is the most tragic, the most horrific, and the most thought-provoking theme in the novel. Morrison, as a black woman writer, inherits and reconstructs the infanticide matrix in the novel with her rich imagination and poetical expression, taking full advantage of the post-modernism and the Latin American magic realism. Through the analysis of infanticide matrix, this paper aims to make an interpretation to Toni Morrison’s artistic approach and her inheritance and reconstruction of infanticide matrix, exploring the evil of slavery and the deep, strong mother love in Beloved.

Keywords: infanticide matrix; inheritance; reconstruction; Toni Morrison

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. An introduction to Infanticide Matrix 3

4. The Inheritance of the Traditional Infanticide in Beloved 4

4.1 The traditional infanticide 4

4.2 Toni Morrison’s inheritance of the tradition 5

5. The Reconstruction of Infanticide Matrix in Beloved 6

5.1 The construction of the infanticide matrix 6

5.2 The deconstruction of the infanticide matrix 9

5.3 The reconstruction of the infanticide matrix 10

6. Conclusion 11

Works Cited 13