摘要
 

黑人女性作家托尼•莫里森是公认的美国当代最重要的黑人小说家之一。《最蓝的眼睛》是托尼•莫里森的第一部小说，发表于1970年。作品描写了白人文化意识、价值观念对黑人社区,黑人生活产生的负面影响,同时也探讨了美国黑人抵抗白人文化冲击、保留住黑人文化的途径。
本文从人物的角度解读这部小说，以黑人少女佩克拉的精神崩溃和另一黑人女孩克劳蒂亚的幸存为对比，来分析探讨两者对于白人文化的不同态度，在白人文化冲击下的不同黑人生活以及由此产生的不同的结果。
文章主要从家庭，黑人社区对个人的影响及个人自身努力这一角度来分析在美国白人文化主导的审美标准冲击下，佩克拉丧失了身份与自我而克劳蒂亚保持了身份与自我的原因。来探讨白人文化对于美国黑人的影响，以及黑人群体在白人文化的重压下，如何才能寻找到自身最好的出路。

关键词：最蓝的眼睛，白人文化，态度，身份

ABSTRACT

As a black female writer, Toni Morrison is recognized as one of the most important American novelists. The bluest eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel, published in 1970. The novel exposes the negative impact of the white culture on the black people, and discusses the possible ways to resist the impact of the white culture on the black people.
In contrast of one black girl Pecola’s spiritual collapse and the other girl Claudia’s survival, this paper analyses two girls’ different attitudes toward white culture, their different life in the dominant white culture, and the different results. By contrasting the reasons for Pecola’s losing beauty and herself with Claudia’s gaining beauty and herself, in the face of white standard of beauty from the perspective of their respective families, their community, themselves, this paper is in an attempt to demonstrate that American black can find the way to survival.

Key words: The Bluest Eye, white culture, attitude, identity

1  Introduction
1.1 Toni Morrison’s Works
As a black female writer, Toni Morrison is recognized as one of the most important American novelists. Since 1970, Toni Morrison published eight novels, include The Bluest Eye(1970), Sula(1973), Song of Solomon(1977), TarBaby(1981), Beloved(1987), Jazz(1922), Paradise(1998), and Love(2003). “Toni Morrison understands her works more fundamentally as part of a black cultural tradition and works to create a distinctively black literature. Her prose is infected with black musical traditions.”
Morrison always selects the writing materials from the African American’s history and realistic life. All of the novels of Toni Morrison express the same topic，the search for self and place within the community.
Based on the works，Morrison has won many literary awards such as “the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. She is an international celebrity.”