The Memory In Toni Morrison’s Novels

Toni Morrison is a black woman writer who has great personality and characteristics. She has published ten novels (until 2014), the former eight mostly perform the difficult living condition of the African Americans basis on American abolitionist period. It’s the first time for Morrison to shift the background to the early colonial history stage of North America in her ninth work, "A Mercy". This apparent shift of the historical background reflects Morrison’s reflections on African American issues has change from periodic analysis to getting to the root. Morrison selected "memory" as her retroactive method, but her memory frame constructed by fictions is not a molding. It’s built up in her work with the accumulation of her memories gradually. So, this paper will comprehensively sort the memory concepts Morrison has involved in her novels and other works, to restore her memory system. Finally, on this basis of the early North American Prospect Morrison built in "A Mercy", I want to digging out the intentions in Morrison’s memory writing that implicit in the metaphor frame, and her critical recognize of slavery and racism as well as the American society.