密级: 学校代码: 10075 分类号: 学号: 20090581 文学硕士学位论文黑人女性的自我成长 ——对《秀拉》的文化心理学解读 学位申请人: 刘苗 指导教师: 张金霞教授 学位类别: 文学硕士学科专业: 英语语言文学授予单位: 河北大学答辩日期: 二○一二年五月 Classified Index: CODE: 10075 U. D. C: NO: 20090581 A Dissertation for the Degree of M. Arts Black Woman’s Development of Self —— A Study of Sula from the Perspective of Cultural Psychology Candidate: Liu Miao Supervisor: Prof. ZhangJinxia Academic Degree Applied for: Master of Arts Specialty: English Language and Literature University: Hebei University Date of Oral Examination: May , 2012 Abstract I Abstract Toni Morrison, as one of the most outstandi ng black female writers and the winner of Nobel Prize of Literatu re in 1993, assumes significant role in Black Literature. As being black and female at the same time, Morrison attaches special importance to black female experience especially to black female’s development of se lf. She creates impressive black characters who inevitably lose the struggle against the double oppression of gende r and race or who inevitably lose the battle against the evil inside, for instance, Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye , and Sula in Sula . Except for her concern of blac k female experience, she also demonstrates traditional black culture in her works. Morrison values extraordinarily the strength munity and ancestor, as well as the role that black male plays in black female’s development of self. Sula is the second published book of Toni Morrison . It is interpreted uniquely from the point of view of characterization of the prot agonist and its plot by different scholars and critics since its publication. This accounts to Morrison’s elaborate depi ction of mon black females and her thought-provoking themes. This thesis probes into how black cultural elements affect black women’s development of self. This thesis p rises three chapters in the main body to an alyze it. The first chapter mainly introduces the au
