目录
Introduction
Chapter One Various Forms of the Self-Hatred of African
Americans Represented in Morrison's Fiction
1.1 Negation of Black Physical Identity
1.2 Abandonment of Black Cultural Identity
1.2.1 Lack of Respect for the Elders——the Ancestral Figures in the Black Community
1.2.2 Suppression of Emotional Vitality
1.2.3 Undermining of Racial Solidarity
1.2.3.1 Class Conflict among Blacks
1.2.3.2 Gender Conflict among Blacks
1.2.3.3 Tension Between the Racial Self and the Racial
Community
Chapter Two Tracing the Causes of the Self-Hatred of
African Americans in Morrison's Fiction
2.1 Self-Hatred and the Use of Force
2.2 Self-Hatred and Economic Oppression
2.3 Self-Hatred and Ideological Control
Chapter Three From Self-Hatred to Self-Love:the Affirmation of African American Cultural Identity in
Morrison's Fiction
3.1 Respect for Ancestors
3.2 Affirmation of Spontaneous Emotions
3.3 Collective Survival
3.3.1 Solidarity between Different Classes of Blacks
3.3.2 Learning from Black Women
3.3.3 Harmony between the Racial Self and the Racial Community
3.4 Assertion of Racial Beauty
Conclusion
Bibliography
内容摘要
《非裔美国人探求身份之路:对托妮·莫里森的小说研究》首次从非裔美国人自我憎恨心理的角度对托妮·莫里森的小说进行系统的分析。很长时期以来,非裔美国人一直都在受着种族问题的困扰。作为一位非裔美国作家,托妮·莫里森不可能对她同族人的命运无动于衷。但在她的作品中,莫里森并没有聚焦于黑人和白人之间的直接冲突,她更感兴趣的是黑人群体内部的问题,这些问题往往是因为小说中的人物违背个人的兴趣、压抑自己的本性以及忽视本族文化、一味模仿主流文化的模式而造成的。通过呈现某些非裔美国人的自我憎恨心理,莫里森试图证明,对白人价值标准的内化以及对黑人身份的放弃是白人种族主义对非裔美国人造成的最大伤害。全书共分三章。第一章介绍了莫里森小说中非裔美国人自我憎恨心理的各种表现方式。第二章探究非裔美国人自我憎恨心理的各种起因。第三章讨论的是莫里森为祛除非裔美国人的自我憎恨心理所提供的治疗方法。