Abstract Toni Morrison is the first American black woman novelist who has obtained Nobel Prize for literature。 Her novel Beloved is known as a milestone in the American black literature。 This novel depicts the black slave woman called Sethe, who killed her baby girl when chased by her slave owner in order to get her out of the shackles of slavery。 This thesis analyzes the novel Beloved from the perspective of ecofeminism and reveals the repression and exploitation that men have done to women through criticizing patriarchy and anthropocentric dualism。 This thesis makes analysis of the common features between women and nature and the role nature plays on the three black women’s searching for their self identity, provoking people to think about how to establish a society within which men and women, human and nature can live a harmonious and equal life。92345
Keywords: Beloved;Ecofeminism; Patriarchy; Anthropocentric Dualism; Nature
摘要 托妮·莫里森是第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国黑人女作家。其小说《宠儿》被誉为美国黑人文学史上的一座里程碑。这部小说描写了女黑奴赛斯在携女逃亡的途中遭到追捕,为了不让孩子再次沦为奴隶,她毅然扼杀了自己的幼女。本文旨在从生态女性主义视角来对小说《宠儿》进行剖析,通过批评和反思父权制和人类中心二元论思想来揭露男性和社会对于黑人女性的压迫和剥削。本文重点分析了小说中自然和女性的关系以及自然在三位黑人女性探索自我中的作用,从而引发人们思考如何建立一个男性与女性,人类与自然和平共处的社会。
毕业论文关键词:《宠儿》;生态女性主义;父权制;人类中心二元论;自然
Contents
1。 Introduction1
2。 Literature Review2
2。1 Domestic research on Beloved2
2。2 Foreign research on Beloved。。。2
2。3 The significance of this thesis。。3
3。 Ecofeminism 。。3
3。1 A brief introduction to ecofeminism。。4
3。2 Ecofeminism, anthropocentric dualism and patriarchy 。。4
3。3 Toni Morrison’s ecofeminist consciousness。。。5
4。The Relationship between Women and Nature 。。6
4。1The common features between women and nature 6
4。2The function of nature on the women’s searching for self identity。7
5。Black Women’s Recovery from Trauma and Construction of Self Identity。。8
5。1 The trauma of black women。8
5。2 The self construction of black women10
6。 Conclusion。。。12
Works Cited。。。13
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Toni Morrison, an American black female novelist, was born in Laurent, Ohio。 At the end of the 1960s, she stood on the literary stage。 Her works were emotional, short and poetic and were famous for his keen insight of American black life。 His main works The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), and Beloved (1987) which gave her credit and wide reputation。 The Black Book she wrote chronicles 300 years history of American blacks and was known as the “Encyclopedia of American Black History”。 In 1988, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Toni Morrison and the American Book Award for Beloved。 Toni Morrison became the first black female novelist who has obtained the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993。 She gained the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016。
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, published in 1987, which marked the maturity of her writing and Morrison has been the most famous contemporary writers since then。 In a word, she has received great honor in the world for the composition of the Beloved。