Abstract

Toni Morrison, a prominent African-American novelist in the world, won the Nobel Prize in 1993, and became the first black woman writer who got this significant prize.
The issue of Beloved shocked the literary world in America, and was regarded as a monument of the history of American blacks. The novel, through a straight infanticide case, reveals the heinous crime what slavery has committed to women and even a race and discloses the destruction of self both in psychology and physiology. As a branch of feminism, the research of Black Feminism literary theory focuses on the black women's gender discrimination, racial discrimination and class bias imposed by American society, such as multiple oppressions. It was adopted by Toni Morrison to reveal that black women are under the oppression of suffering, and provide them with some ways to get rid of miseries.
Starting from the perspective of Black Feminism, around the subject of self-seeking and awakening, this paper comprehensively analyzes the identity, personality and behavior of the main characters in this work, especially the three female representatives. The black women’ hardships will be shown when they are on the way of self-seeking.

Key Words:  Beloved   Black Feminism   self-seeking  awakening

摘要

托尼·莫里森是当今世界文坛上一位杰出的黑人女作家，1993年获得诺贝尔文学奖，成为当今历史上获此殊荣的第一位美国黑人女作家。
《宠儿》的发表震撼了美国文学界，并被视为美国黑人历史的一座纪念碑。小说通过一桩杀婴案揭示了奴隶制对妇女和一个种族所犯下的罪行，披露了奴隶制在精神和肉体上对自我的摧残。作为女性主义的一个分支，黑人女性主义文学理论主要研究美国社会对黑人妇女的多方面压迫，包括种族歧视、性别歧视和阶级歧视等，作者通过这个主义揭示黑人女性在这些压迫下所受的令人难以想象的苦难，希望能为她们找到一条摆脱困境的方法
本文从黑人女性主义的视角出发，围绕自我寻找与觉醒这一主题，通过对这部作品中的主要人物特别是三位女性代表人物的身份、性格及行为方式的全面分析，展示出黑人女性寻求自我的艰难历程。

关键词: 《宠儿》；黑人女性主义；自我寻找；觉醒

Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Toni Morrison and Her Literary Works
As an American black woman, Toni Morrison was a great writer. She wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth; instead, she was born in an ordinary family in steel city of Los Angeles Lean. Her father was just a blue-collar worker, and her mother was a maid who worked for white people. With excellent grades and good performance, Morrison was admitted to Howard University which was especially for black students in 1949. Her major was English and classical literature and this laid foundation for her writing. Right after she graduated, she went to the Cornell University for further study, specializing in novels, especially Faulkner’s and Wolff's novels. She did well and finally obtained a master's degree.