《宠儿》的母爱主题
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《宠儿》的母爱主题
【论文学科】英语语言文学论文
【中文关键词】宠儿论文; 托妮·莫里森论文; 母爱论文; 伤痛论文; 愈合论文
【中文题名】《宠儿》的母爱主题
【英文题名】On the Maternal Love in Beloved
【所属分类】哲学与人文科学,世界文学,各国文学
【英文关键词】“Beloved”; “Toni Morrison”; “maternal love”; “trauma”; “healing”
【中文摘要】托尼·莫里森,一九九三年诺贝尔文学奖得主,是当代美国文坛一位著名的黑人女作家。《宠儿》
是她最好的作品之一,取材于一篇真实的历史文献报道。但奴隶主捕捉逃亡的玛格丽特一家时,她手刃自己
的亲生女儿。莫里森被这个故事深深地打动,决心找出慈爱的母亲杀死自己的女儿,却声称这是解脱,是母爱
的本质。在《宠儿》一书中,莫里森着重描写女主角,塞斯的心理状态,讲述了奴隶制下一个奴隶母亲的痛苦
经历,探讨了在特定历史条件—奴隶制下的母爱及母爱遭受破坏的程度。本文试图运用女性主义批评理论,
通过对小说文本的分析,解读小说女主人公塞斯的母爱的本质及其母爱对子女的影响。本论文分为五个部
分:概述部分介绍莫里森写《宠儿》的缘由,概述其故事内容,总结评论界对其主题的分析。简单介绍女性主
义文学关于母性的批评理论及母爱的隐喻,为后面章节的分析提供背景资料。第一章通过分析塞斯的经历
及所受的伤痛,探讨了奴隶制是如何影响并扭曲了黑人母爱和(来源:ABCb2论23文网www.abclunwen.com)
莫里森如何让黑人母亲们的身体讲述了那不可能讲述的事情,从而总结出塞斯弑婴的深层原因,是被奴隶
制剥夺母爱的可怕结果。第二章分析了小说中其他人物对塞斯受到的母爱的伤痛所起的救治作用。莫里
森强调了黑人社区对个体的帮助。第三章从奴隶制对伟大母亲的颠覆和母女间过密的关系两方面来分析
《宠儿》中的母女关系。笔者认为莫里森表明了黑人母亲在文化传承中的作用举足轻重,而女儿只有在了
解母亲的历史之后,才能治愈自己的伤痛,更好面向未来的生活。总结部分说明莫里森通过《宠儿》中塞斯
的经历,表明了母亲是智慧的源泉,子女的保护者,文化的传承者,将非洲文化一代代的传递下去。(来
源:ABCf0论文网www.abclunwen.com)
【英文摘要】 Toni Morrison, the 1993 Nobel Prize Winner of Literature, is one of the most distinguished black
woman writers in American literature canon. Beloved, one of her best novels, is based on a real historical
occurrence. According to historical documents, a slave mother, Margret Garner, killed her daughter and tried to
kill herself when the slave owner came to capture them. Morrison is stimulated by the reporting and determines
to find what is the essence that a loving mother had to use a handsaw to her own child while claiming it is
salvation and maternal love. In Beloved, Morrison centers on exploring the psychology of the protagonist, Sethe,
to tell a slave mother’s painful experience under slavery system. She also resolves around exploring the maternal
love and to what extent it was damaged under the specific circumstance—slavery. This thesis tends to analyze
the character Sethe in the perspective of feminism, focusing on the essence of her maternal love and how her“too
thick”maternal love influences her daughters.This thesis will be conducted in five parts.Introduction gives a brief
presentation to Beloved, focusing on the plot, the source, and the literary reviews of Beloved. The feminist views
on motherhood and the metaphor about maternal love is presented as background information for the following
analysis.Chapter One analyses Sethe’s experience and her maternal loss and trauma, explores how maternal love
has been affected and distorted by slavery and how Morrison has let the maternal body speak for the unspeakable
and concludes the causes of Sethe’s infanticide, the disastrous consequence of violated maternal love by
slavery.Chapter Two shifts to analyze the other characters’function to heal Sethe’s maternal loss and trauma in
Beloved. Morrison emphasizes the function of black community on healing individuals.Chapter Three analyses
the paradoxes of mother-daughter relationship in Beloved, which concerns with the great black mother subverted
by slavery and an over-close bond between mother and daughters. The author maintains that Morrison reminds
her readers that mother plays important roles in handing down the cultural heritage, and that the after generations
are responsible for remembering their mother’s history so as to heal themselves and better face the
future.Conclusion shows that Morrison conveys a message that African-American women are the ground of
wisdom and protection, and the culture transmitters who hand down African cultural tradition from one
generation to another.
Acknowledgements 5-6 Abstract 6 摘要 7-10 Introduction 10-14 Chapter 1 The Maternal Loss and Trauma 14-37 1.1 Sethe’s Trauma from Slavery System 14-20 1.1.1 The Suffering of the Slaves 14-16 1.1.2 Mr. Garner’s Fake Reform 16-18 1.1.3 Schoolteacher’s Oppression on Sethe 18-20 1.2 Sethe’s Trauma from the Deprivation of Maternal Love 20-25 1.2.1 Slave Mothers’Trauma 20-22 1.2.2 The Deprivation of Maternal Love 22-25 1.3 Sethe’s Struggle 25-33 1.3.1 Sethe’s Pregnancy 25-27 1.3.2 Sethe’s Nurture 27-29 1.3.3 Sethe’s Monthly Freedom 29-30 1.3.4 Sethe’s Infanticide 30-33 1.4 Sethe’s Trauma from the Incarnation of Beloved 33-37 Chapter 2 The Maternal Healing 37-51 2.1 Amy Denver: the First Healer 37-38 2.2 Baby Suggs: the Holy Healer 38-39 2.3 Paul D: the Resurrected Healer 39-42 2.4 Beloved: the Main Healer 42-43 2.5 Denver: the Bridge between Sethe and the Community 43-45 2.6 Black Community: the Collective Healer 45-51 Chapter 3 Mother-daughter Relationship 51-58 3.1 The Great Black Mother Subverted by Slavery 51-53 3.2 The Over-close Bond between Mother and Daughters 53-56 3.3 African Mothers: the Culture Bearers 56-58 Conclusion 58-60 Bibliography 60-63 Essays Published 63-64
