反思历史拷问良知 ——评莫里森的《宠儿》

非裔美国小说家莫里森极具历史意识,十分关注美国主流社会对黑人历史的忽视与抑制.她的获奖小说<宠儿>通过挪用美国内战前玛格丽特·加纳的真实故事,用小说这种形式对奴隶制进行反思,而且通过让一个被自己母亲杀死的黑人女孩复活的形式,让生者直面苦难,见证苦难,借以拷问生者的良知.

Reconsidering Histories, and Torturing One's Conscience——On Toni Morrison's Beloved

African American novelist Toni Morrison has a strong sense of history,and pays close attention to the ignorance and suppression of African American history.By appropriating the story of Margaret Garner before the Civil War,Morrison's prizewinning novel Beloved reconsiders American Slavery in terms of fiction;by the resurrection of Beloved,the black girl killed by her own mother,Morrison lets the living face and bear witness to the tribulations,thus,torture their conscience.