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杭州电子科技大学硕士学位论文 proves thatMagic Realism has aconsiderable position inthecreationofSong ofSolomon. Keywords: songofSolomon,Magic Realism,themes,characters,techniques 杭州电子科技大学硕士学位论文 Chapter One Introduction The Introduction toT0niMorrisonand肋馏ofSolomon ToniMorrison was bom Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 8,1 931,the second childof ia—bom e Wofford and Alabama-born Ramah herchildhood inLorain,Ohio,which isthesetting ofherearly several hometown is an ethnically diversesteeltown just westofCleveland where herparents hadrelocated toavoid theracism ofthe attended an integrated school inLorain and excelled inreading atherearlyage. Even before herformal schoolyears,Morrison hadinterestinstories athome from herparents,both of whom were storytellers and musicians,obtained adeep respect from theirchildren fortheir heritagethrough thestories. Morrison graduated from Lorain High School withhonors in 949and enrolled inthemost prestigious African American university·——···Howard University,where shemajored inEnglish and minored inclassicsand received aBachelor degree ofArts in hercollege years she joined auniversity·affiliated touring pany,and also changed her name to T0ni, allegedly because SO many people had difficulty pronouncing hername? her graduation from Howard in 953,Morrison attended Cornell University,earning aMaster’Sdegree inEnglish afterwriting athesis onWilliam Faulkner andVirginia Wbolf in 955. “In955-57 Morrison taught atTexas SouthernUniversity,then returned toHoward University tojoin thefaculty in shemet herhusband,Harold Morrison,a married in 958 andhadtwo children,Harold Ford and Slade Kevin,before they divorced in 964, thesame year Morrison leftHoward was during thisperiod thatMorrisonbegan writing inearnest,asanantidote totheloneliness sheoftenfelt. In 964Morrisonbegan work as alleditorforthetextbook subsidiary ofRandom House in Syracuse,N