• Beloved was inspired by the true story
of a black American slave woman, Margaret Garner. She escaped with her husband Robert from a Kentucky plantation, and sought fringe in Ohio.
Awards
• 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved •1989 MLA Commonwealth Award in Literature
•1993 Nobel Prize for Literature
•1993 Commander of the Arts and Letters, Paris •1994 Condorcet Medal, Paris •1994 Pearl Buck Award

Tar Baby
—— A novel about contentions and conflicts based on learned biases and prejudices. These biases exist on a race level, gender level, and a class level.
Beloved
Background
Characters and Plot
Writing features Themes
Background
• The story set in Cincinnati around the Reconstruction period. (战后恢复时期) • Beloved is a powerful book about the evil of slavery and the value of freedom. • The tragic story is told in a series of flashbacks. • Sethe, the protagonist, was once a slave in Kentucky before the Civil War.

Born in Lorain, Ohio

Author's Professional Background
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Morrison received a B.A. in English from Howard in 1953 • Morrison taught English at two branches of the State University of She earned a Master of Arts degree, New York. also in English, from Cornell o In 1984 she was appointed to University in 1955 an Albert Schweitzer chair at Morrison became an English the University at Albany, The instructor at Texas Southern State University of New York. University in Houston, Texas (from 1955-57) then returned to Howard • From 1989 until her retirement in 2006, Morrison held the Robert F. to teach English Goheen Chair in the Humanities at She worked as a textbook editor Princeton University she went to work as an editor at the New York City headquarters of Random House o played an important role in
bringing black literature into the mainstream
1970 1973 1977 1981 1988 1992 1999 1993 2008
The Bluest Eye 《最蓝的眼睛》 Sula 《秀拉》 Song of Solomon 《所罗门之歌》 Tar Baby 《柏油孩子》、《黑宝贝》 Beloved《 宠儿》 Jazz 《爵士乐》 Paradise《天堂》、《乐园》 Love 《爱》 A Mercy《恩惠》
The Bluest Eye
• ——A novel based on
elements of Morrison’s own experience, contrasts two black families: the dysfunctional(不正常的) breed loves and the healthy, loving McTeers.
Main Characters
3. Paul D (保罗.D) — A former slave from
Sweet Home who survived the horrors of slavery and has evolved into a resourceful, contemplative man. He challenges Sethe to try to make a future with him.
Main Characters
2.Denver(丹芙)
— Sethe’s youngest child, the dynamic character in the novel. She overcomes her fear of the world and starts to fight for independence and self-possession .
•Morrison’s first novel, which established her position.
Sula
It depicts two black woman friends and their community of Medallion, Ohio. It follows the lives of Sula, considered a threat against the community, and her cherished friend Nel, from their childhood to maturity and to death. The novel won the National Book Critics Award.

Song of Solomon With Song of Solomon (所罗门 之歌，1977), a family chronicle comparable to Alex Haley's Roots （黑利的小说《根》）, Morrison gained international attention. Morrison wrote the book from a male point of view. The story dealt with Milkman Dead's efforts to recover his "ancient properties", a cache of gold.
Toni Morrison
美国黑人女小说家
Contents
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Biography
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Major Works Awards
A Brief Analysis of Beloved
Brief Introduction
Toni Morrison (1As a child, Morrison read constantly and her favorite authors were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy. Morrison's father also told her numerous folktales of the black community (a method of storytelling that Morrison's used in her own writings). She has two children.
Awards
•1994 Rhegium Julii Prize for Literature •1996 Jefferson Lecture •1996 National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters •2000 National Humanities Medal UUA:Frederic G. Melcher Book Award
Beloved
Morrison‘s best novel and won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction（ 普利策小 说奖）.
Awards
• 1977 National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon • 1977 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award • 1987-88 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award • 1988 American Book Award for Beloved • 1988 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations for Beloved