The Back Of The Shadow-Black Male Image Of Toni Morrison’s Works

Toni Morrison was the first African-American female writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in history. The main content of her works is to describe the black people’s life. Morrison grew up in the golden age of the American literature in history. The appearance of her works broke the situation of black literature which was monopolized by male writers and male characters at that time. Started from Morrison published her "The Bluest Eye" in 1970, a large number of outstanding black women writers such as Alice Walker, Gail Jones appeared. Morrison’s works are particularly concerned about the group of black women’s survival situation and self-identity building. But she would not be deliberately belittled the group of black male, contrary, Morrison understood the misfortune of black male, and showed a great pity to them.At the beginning of the American Civil War’s end, although outlawed of slavery let black people gained their freedom of identity, racial and cultural oppression did not melt away. This paper will mainly use the earliest 5 works of Toni Morrison as material, explain the image changing process of black male in Morrison’s works, and analyze the reasons for this change in the history, culture, and feminism ways.From the absence of Jolly in his family in "The Bluest Eye", to the crisis of McCann Dade’s black identity recognition in "Song of Solomon", and then to the regress of male in "Beloved", Morrison expressed the hope that the gender oppression from male black group to the females could be abandoned, then gender harmony could be reached, while integration of cultures could be integrated from ancestors’ inherited and the advanced foreign country’s accepted.