Abstract

Toni Morrison is the first black female winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in history. Most of her works are focusing on black women’s suffering and awakening, racial and sexual discrimination, and the harmony between man and nature. A Mercy tells a story happening at the end of 17th century, in the bud of serfdom, between the north-American farmer Jacob and his mailed wife Rebekka, a young black slave Florens, a native Indian Lina and a mixed-race Sorrow living on the farm. The thesis analyzes A Mercy from the perspective of ecofeminism, focusing on the analysis of the hard life experiences and the self-pursuit of the four female characters after the destruction of the ecological environment, and revealing how men control women and destroy the nature both in patriarchy and in slavery.

Key words: ecofeminism; patriarchy; self-pursuit

摘 要

托妮·莫里森是历史上唯一一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的黑人女作家，其多数作品关注黑人妇女经历的苦难与觉醒、性别和种族歧视以及人与自然的和谐。《恩惠》讲述了十七世纪末农奴制刚萌芽时，北美农场主雅各布与他的邮购妻子丽贝卡、年轻黑人女仆弗洛伦斯、印第安人莉娜以及混血女孩索萝在农场里发生的故事。本篇论文将从生态女性主义角度分析《恩惠》，重点解析四位女性人物在生态环境破坏后各自的成长经历和自我追寻的过程，剖析了在父权和奴隶制度下男性对女性的控制及对自然的破坏。

关键词：生态女性主义；父权；自我追寻