论《最蓝的眼睛》的创伤叙事艺术.pdfVIP

Abstract Abstract In 1993, Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is the first African-American writer to win this laurel, and she is also the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature after Pearl S. Buck. The achievements of her novels mark another peak in the history of 20th century Afro-American literature after Wright and Ellison. Her works profoundly reveal the miserable traumatic history of the black suffering from the racial discrimination and oppression, and call on the construction of national culture and the pursuit of self-personality by the blacks. When her first novel, The Bluest Eye came out, it immediately drew the attention of the American literary world. Today, The Bluest Eye has become a literary classic of American women’s literature, and has also become an indispensable part of research on Morrison. As an African-American woman writer, Toni Morrison shares blood with her fellow blacks. Her works touches upon race and oppression, and pays close attention to the cruelty of racial discrimination and gender discrimination to the blacks. As a talented writer, Morrison makes use of the unique writing skills and the ability of using powerful languages in order to make her works covered with a profound sense of trauma. This dissertation tries to study The Bluest Eye from the perspective of the trauma narrative art and explores how Tony Morrison employs the artful trauma narrative structure, trauma narrative voice and the unique trauma discourse to utter the great trauma which the blacks suffer in the cruel white society. This dissertation is divided into five chapters. The first chapter introduces Morrisons life and her writing career as we