摘 要
   
托妮•莫里森是美国第一个获得诺贝尔文学奖的黑人女作家，她的作品大多从美国黑人的历史和现实生活中取材，《宠儿》是其最杰出的一部作品。小说取自于一个名叫玛格丽特•加纳的女黑奴的历史真实故事。本文旨在从黑人女性主义的视角来研究小说中母亲塞丝的形象。本文从主人公塞丝弑婴的原因，以及塞丝、宠儿和丹芙三人的内心独白、塞丝自我意识的觉醒这几个方面来研究塞丝的形象。塞丝有着黑奴、女性和母亲等多重身份。她是一个悲惨的女黑奴，同时又是一个深爱孩子的母亲，渴望孩子们自由、幸福和健康，是现实生活中很多黑人母亲形象的缩影。但罪恶的奴隶制剥夺了她做母亲的权利，使她被当作生育的工具，所以她唯一可以做的就是消灭女儿的肉体，使其远离奴隶制，获得灵魂的自由。

关键字：黑人女性主义；弑婴；内心独白；塞丝；觉醒

ABSTRACT
   
Toni Morrison is the first African American black female writer to win Nobel Prize in Literature. Most of her works have drawn on African American black history and real life. Beloved is the most remarkable one. The novel derives from the real story of a black female slave called Margaret Garner. The paper aims at studying Sethe from Black Feminism through three aspects such as the reasons for Sethe’s infanticide, internal monologue of Sethe, Beloved, Denver and the awakening of Sethe’s self-consciousness. On one hand, Sethe owns multiple identities of a black slave, a female and a mother. She is a miserable black female slave and meanwhile she is a mother loving her children, yearning for her children’s freedom, happiness and health. Above all, she is the epitome of many black mothers in reality. On the other hand, villainous slavery deprives her of her right to be a mother, making her the tools for child birth. Therefore, what she can do is wiping out her daughter’s body, making her obtain psychical freedom and get away from the slavery.

Key words: Black Feminism; infanticide; internal monologue; Sethe; awakening