Study On The Black Images In Toni Morrison’s Novels

As a woman writer of ethnic minorities, Toni Morrison presents black Americans especially the survival condition and spiritual path of black women to readers. For more than forty years, Morrison has published 11 works, and she is awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, American Arts and Literature Academy Award, American National Book Award etc. In 1993, Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and she became the only black woman writer who won the prize in history.This paper mainly focuses on the theme of "lost, rebellion, growth and protection" to interpret the American black images in Morrison’s four novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Paradise. The paper has four parts: the first part is introduction which mainly introduces the writer’s life experience and fiction creation overview, roughly sorts the research status of domestic and foreign Morrison’s novels, and explains the research content and overall framework of this paper. The second part is the main part of the paper, the author divides the black images in the above four novels into four types "lost", "rebellion", "growth" and "protection" to discuss the psychic trauma that racial discrimination and cultural brainwashing bring to black Americans and the process that black Americans rebuild personal identity from lost. The third part focuses on explaining the value of black images in Morrison’s novels. The fourth part is conclusion.Through The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Paradise, Morrison describes American black images that have distinctive character, different positions and connotation by affectionate rich brushwork, which shows the life of black Americans in different age. From lost to rebellion, from growth to protect, this woman writer’s novels are just like a polygon prism, which reflects "another kind of reality" of American society that holds the torch of equality, democracy and freedom from different angles, hoping to release the black people’s sadness suppressed for a long time, comfort and suture the invisible wounds in their hearts, and step into the good and beautiful future together.