托妮·莫里森《宠儿》、《爵士乐》、《天堂》三部曲中的身份建构PDF电子书下载

Introduction 1

Ⅰ．Biographical and Critical Contexts of Toni Morrison's Literary Texts 2

Ⅱ．The Guiding Principle and Structure of This Book 18

Chapter One The Concept of Identity and Its Significance in African American Literary Works 24

Ⅰ．The Concept of Identity and Identity-Building 24

Ⅱ．The Quest for Identity in African American Literature 35

Ⅲ．The Quest for Identity in Toni Morrison's Works 47

Chapter Two Identity-Building through"Rememory"of the Unspoken History in Beloved 53

Ⅰ．Objectification and Othering of Black People in Slavery Discourse 55

Ⅱ．Black(Ex-)Slaves' Counter-Discourse in"Claiming Ownership of that Freed Self" 65

Ⅲ．Beloved as a Trope of Identity-Building for African Americans 77

Chapter Three Identity-Building through Jazzified Musical/Narrative Discourse in Jazz 85

Ⅰ．Fragmented Stories of Displaced People:Profound Cultural Dislocations the Great Migration Entailed 86

Ⅱ．Jazzified Negotiations of Identity 99

Chapter Four Identity-Building through Cultural Hybridity in Paradise 114

Ⅰ．Paradise:a Critique of Essentialism and Manichaeism in Communal Historiography and Identity-Building 114

Ⅱ．Paradise:Towards Building a Hybrid Identity 127

Ⅲ．Reimagining Paradise 138

Chapter Five Toni Morrison's Identity-Building as an African American Woman Writer 142

Ⅰ．Toni Morrison's Racial Identity 143

Ⅱ．Toni Morrison's Gendered Identity 145

Ⅲ．Toni Morrison's Aesthetic Identity 147

Conclusion 155

Ⅰ．From Being Imagined"Other"to Being"Choices":Toni Morrison's Identity-Building for African American People 155

Ⅱ．Toni Morrison's Exploration of the Relationship between Identity-Building and Rememory,History,and Storytelling 158

Ⅲ．Toni Morrison's Liminality 159

Ⅳ．Toni Morrison's Paradoxical Authoritative Position in the American Literary and Cultural World 162

Works Cited 165

Primary Sources 165

Secondary Sources 168

Acknowledgements 180