宠儿beloved读书报告(全英).doc

1、文 法 分 院读 书 报 告 题 目 A shackle against black slaves 班级: 11商本3 姓 名: 周江美 学 号: 11203023319 书 名: Beloved 作 者: Toni Morrison 总 页 码： 出 版 社： 出版时间： 版次，印数 TitleAbstract：Beloved is mainly talked about a black slavery, she wanted to escape from the employ .However, she was hunted by hunter. And in her arms, ther

2、e is a child. For her daughter, she did not want to her to become a slave again, she killed her daughter. Whereas, the baby was appeared in 18 years. She sought the love of her mother again and again, she wanted to revenge. Finally, the family was broken. Key word: beloved; Oppression; Rebellion; To

3、ni MorrisonTitle1. Brief Introduction of Toni MorrisonToni Morrison，as one of the most outstanding representatives ofAfrican-American female writers， has the highest reputation. From 1970 when she published her debut The Bluest Eye (1970), she continued to publish eight novels, they are Song of Solo

4、mon (1977), Sula (1973), Tar baby (1981)，Beloved (1987), Jazz(1992), Paradise (1999), Love (2003), A Mercy (2008). The nine novels determinedher position in the literary world and promoted the African-American female literatureto an unprecedented new height. In 1993 when Toni Morrison was sixty-two

5、years old, She was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. She is the first one that gets this honoras an African-American writer, even, a female writer. This is a great honor to thewhole African-American female literature, for the hard times African-Americanfemale literature has ever experienced. Bl

6、ack womens literary works and their liberation movements influenced and promoted each other. Black womens literary works turned into important resources which construct and develop black womens subjective consciousness and played an indispensable role in Black womens physical and mental development.

7、 Meanwhile Black womens social movements also became the continuous flow of power to Black womens literary works. Just under such cultural background, Toni Morrison produced her series of works. She selected her subject matter from the African-American history and real fife, committed to maintain an

8、d carry forward black culture and explored black peoples historical fate and spiritual world, especially black women.2. The reason why I choose this bookFirstly, it is a story of Gothic. It extracted a full measure of suspense and horror. I like such books very much. Secondly, I want to get more inf

9、ormation about black slavery. Finally, this book is easy to be understand. So I choose this book.3. Characters Name AnalysisSethe: Sethe s、mother names Sethe but is unable to provide Sethe the maternal love. Sethe suffers the loss of mother love. That is why she insists on holding Beloved to herself

10、 at the expense of the death of the baby girl. She wants to maintain her own mother- hood. Sethes vague memory of the origin of her name causes her to suffer a serious identity crisis. For Sethe, to regain the origin of her name means to reclaim her relational identity and her sense of cultural root

11、s.Beloved: The name of Sethes ghost daughter Beloved is derived from Beloved、headstone. Sethe exchanges her body with the engraver for the name Beloved” engraved from the headstone of her dead daughter. Ten minutes for seven letters. With another ten could she have gotten dearly” too? She had not th

12、ought toask him and it bothered her still that it might have been possible that for twenty minutes a half hour say， she could have had the whole thing every word she heard the preacher say at the funeral (and all there was to say， surely engraved on her baby、headstone: dearly Beloved. But what she g

13、ot settled for， and was the one word that mattered. She thought it would be enough to run among the headstones with the engraver .That should certainly he enough. Enough to answer one more preacher one more abolitionist and a town full of disgust. Sethe wants desperately to name her daughter even by

14、 means of having sex with disgusting engraver. She needs to give her dead daughter an identity to connect her. Therefore when the baby ghost reincarnates to he a young woman she may name herself Beloved. And Sethe is able to recognize her. The word Beloved” is taken from Romans. The sentence goes li

15、ke this Those who were not my people I will call my people，and her who was not beloved I will call beloved, Beloved isnt like an African name. But it does express her mother、inner feeling. Beloved is adorned and killed she， in fact enjoys Cod、love or more exactly mother、naming is of great significance in Beloved.Mr. Garner: Mr. Garner the be