On Black Culture In The Toni Morrison Novel Choice

Afro-Americans are faced with the problem of dual cultural selection after they were forced into America. On the one hand, they live in the underclass and decided to form themselves with American white culture so as to shift the inferior social status, but the mainstream culture rejects them; on the other hand, owing to the impact and suppression from the mainstream culture, their own ethical culture can only exist as an American subculture, and also because of Afro-Americans'lagging and conservation, it's quite difficult for them to get an ideal spirit homeland. Afro-Americans awkwardly live in the crack between the two cultures under the dual cultural crash. Toni Morrison, an Afro-American, in the political context of protesting the mainstream culture and emphasizing the difference and "intercross", puts the stiff cultural selection into the reflective core of her novels, at the same time, she consciously drives the renovation and reconstruction of black culture while presenting the hardship of Afro-Americans'cultural selection and seeking a better cultural environment for them. This article analyzes the Afro-Americans'cultural selection in Morrison's novels in three aspects. The first part: awkward cultural environment. Focuses on the Afro-Americans'cultural circumstances. The Afro-American economically keeps suffering until and discriminates against and suppresses in politics, the living environment is lower than the American white man to a great extent; after they were forced into America. More diagraceful embodiment at cultural comtempt, Afro-Americans 'psychological diagrammatic were replaced under major impact of culture and have been to self-hating and self-rejecting in their mind. And black culture is considered as barbarous and backward culture. Afro-Americans and their culture suffer coercion from the white culture ,and the result is: the black culture is edged. Their culture awkwardly dissociates between the white culture and the African traditional culture. The second part: the hardship of cultural selection. Analyze Morrison's...