【正文】 gether. Therefore, in many places, the whites and the blacks are segregated. In restaurant, there are the Whites’ Zone and the Blacks’ Zone。 she has a good educational background。 they just fight for the White. However, they excluded the black women from getting into them. So, when the white women gradually win their rights in political or economic realm. The black women are still oppressed and have to live tragic lives. Because the oppression is doubled, they have to bear the oppression both from the men and the white women. Some white women said that they call for the sisterhood without racialism, and they want to let the black women join them together for this movement. It seems that they just want to invite ―the guest—the black women‖ as a host. So, many black women believed that it is not good for them and it is useless for them to take part in the movement to fight for the white women. Therefore, it can be said that the racial discrimination will exist for a long time because of the social system, and the black women will still live in their tragic lives for a long time. B. The Growth of the Black Women There is a motto of Irish Revolution – ―You should sally out by yourself if you want liberty‖ (詹妮特 467)—that’s fit for the black women absolutely. The black women must fight by themselves to win the liberty and rights. And also, people always say that where there is oppression, there is resistance. The black women’s situation is bad, but they never lose their faith. They are making unremitting efforts to find their ways to a better future. That’s their strength and growth. Because of the slavery, grandma Baby Suggs was deprived of rights to be the others’ friend, daughter, wife, mother and so on, and she had seven children, but was allowed only to leave her little son Halle by her side. This is her only chance to be a mother. But at that time, the children of the slave mothers don’t belong to them。 關(guān)鍵詞 黑人婦女；歧視和壓迫；悲?。涣α?；成長(zhǎng) 攀枝花學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)論文 Introduction 1 Introduction Toni Morrison is the only AfroAmerican woman writer who wins the Nobel Prize for literature. It confirms her renown and makes her one of the most influential writers in America history. From The Bluest Eye to Love, each of her fictions has exerted vibrating influence upon the literary world. In the fictions of Toni Morrison, there is a distinct and eternal theme which can be felt and touched clearly: the tragic life of the black people and the conflict between the white culture and the black culture. Beloved, a famous fiction by Toni Morrison in 1987 which wins the 1988 Pulitzer Prize, best exemplifies the theme and her thoughts about the blacks, especially the black women. The story of Beloved es from a true event: In 1850, Margaret Garner, a Kentucky fugitive slave woman, would rather choose death for herself and her children than being returned to slavery. But she only killed one and the rest were recaptured and sold (Zhu 144). When Toni Morrison heard this story, she was deeply moved and decided to write down it. After 10 years of gestating and 3 years of writing, she finally finished this great work. Once it was published, it shook the whole American literary circle and cultural circle, and was considered a milestone in the history of AfroAmericans. People always think that the black women are coquettish, crude, strong and humble, and they can bear more pressure than the white women. However, Morrison argues that they are wrong. Through her fictions Morrison reveals that the black women have the same emotion just as other people do. Morrison is always proud of her black status. In fact, the black women contribute a lot to America, and even to the whole world, but they still can’t be accepted by the society. Actually, people know very little about the black women, and about the troubles they met and the respect they should get in their work, in their marriage, in their character as a mother, in their spiritual life and their belief. Morrison always tries to express to other people that though the black women have a tragic life they never give up their faith in selfgrowth, and though their growing process is full of difficulties, they finally build themselves up, and bravely face the present and the future. 攀枝花學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)論文 Body 2 I. The Tragedy and Growth of the Black Women A. The Tragedy of the Black Women Morrison chooses the 124 house on Bluestone Road in Cincinnati as the scene of the story. The time is 1873. Although it was 18 years ago when she escaped from the Sweet Home and killed her daughter. It was still a strong memory in Sethe’s mind. At the beginning of the fiction, it said that ―124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.‖ But ―by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims.‖ (Morrison 3). The baby ghost was always in the house. It speeded the Grandmother’s death, and made the little daughter Denver eccentric. The whole story begins with a mysterious ambience, and it is even like a ghost story. In Morrison’s mind, brutal act from human being is crueler than slavery itself, so she bitterly attacks it and describes the real situation of black slaves in the world: White people believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. The more colored people spent their strength trying to convince them how gentle they were, how clever and loving, how human, the more they used themselves up to persuade whites of something Negroes believed could not be questioned, the deeper and more tangled the jungle grew inside. The screaming baboon lived under their own white skin。 strength。 growth 攀枝花