摘要

《宠儿》是当代著名黑人女作家托尼•莫里森的杰作。国内学者对《宠儿》的研究不少,但涉及到黑人女性身份问题的很少，莫里森用她独特的女性主义视角讲述美国黑人妇女在种族和性别的双重压迫下的悲惨生活以及奴隶制给他们带来的巨大心灵创伤，使人们可以强烈深刻地感受到黑人妇女的痛苦经历，带有强烈的女性主义色彩。该文对《宠儿》中三个女主人公:塞丝、贝比•萨格斯和丹芙进行分析, 可以窥见黑人女性对身份的寻求：从沉睡到觉醒，从自发到自觉，直至主动去建立自我主体身份。并生动地刻画了一个个个性鲜明坚强不屈的黑人女性形象，向人们展示了黑人妇女的力量与自我成长。尽管成长的过程充满荆棘，但通过一代又一代的努力，黑人女性最终成长起来，开始勇敢地面对现在和未来。

关键词：《宠儿》；身份重建；女性主义；黑人女性

Abstract

Beloved is the masterpiece of a famous contemporary black women writer Toni Morrison. Many domestic scholars have studied Beloved, but rarely it comes to the about the tragic life of African-American women under the double pressure of race and gender, and enormous trauma slavery brought them. So that people can strongly feel profoundly painful experience of black women with a strong color of feminist. This thesis analyses three heroines: Sethe, Bebisuggs and Denver and you can get a glimpse of the black women to seek the identity: from slumber to awakening, from spontaneity to consciousness until the initiative to reconstruct their self-identity. And she vividly portrayed a distinctive indomitable image of black women to demonstrate the power of black women and self-growth. Despite the growth process is full of thorns, but through the efforts of one generation after another, black women eventually grow up and began to face the present and the future.

Key words: Beloved; identity reconstruction; Feminist; black women 

1. Introduction
1.1Toni Morrison and Beloved
Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 with her masterpiece Beloved published in 1987. Morrison establishes her fame in the American literature with such achievements. Beloved, as Toni Morrison’s best work, shows readers a state of survival of the black slaves and an integration of various narrative techniques in the context of slavery. Beloved implies Morrison’s special concerns about the en-slaved black women. Morrison focuses on black women’s tragedies and miserable struggles to self-growth. It takes three years for Morrison to conceive and write. The instance Beloved comes out, it shakes the whole American literary circle, and causes considerable controversies. Newspapers extol Morrison for an outstanding command of techniques and language in narration. Beloved erects itself as a shining milestone in slave narrative in modern American literary history. Misery and tragedies which black slave women have suffered are a unbearable weight. By closely examining the text of Beloved, this paper attempts to focus on the life for the Bebisuggs, Sethe, Beloved and Denver—the three generations of one family. They suffer the thorny pain of discrimination and inhuman treatments but they bravely struggle in their self-growth. The significance in self-growth is highlighted.