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从《最蓝的眼睛》中一个黑人小女孩渴望得到一双白人那样的蓝眼睛，经过日夜祈求上帝，最后居然夙愿得偿，真的有了一双美丽的蓝眼睛，却终于发现自己仍然无法摆脱悲惨的命运；到《秀拉》中正是黑人女孩秀拉那种令人瞠目的要把这个世界“撕成两半”的决心让她成为同胞心目中倾慕的独立、大胆和自由精神的化身，美国黑人似是已从只知祈求的儿童发展到决心反抗的青年。
托妮·莫瑞森在其处女作《最蓝的眼睛》（1969）及其后的《秀拉》（1973）这两部小说中不仅刻画了佩克拉·勃瑞德拉渥和秀拉·匹斯这两个有着强烈对比的形象，以她们的不同命运及书中众多其他黑人的屈辱生活为人们昭示了作者本民族的过去和现状，并探讨了期 未来的前人管，更一举确立了她“当代美国黑人社会文学观察家”的地位。
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Bekijk Alles
There’s something about reading a novel free from the white gaze, even when the story is tragic and meant to indict me, pushing me to examine my role in my community. There’s so much to unpack, but what stuck with me most was the use of soil as a metaphor for society—how a hostile, racist, and indifferent environment fails to nurture Black children, especially Black girls. The soil is poisoned, and it has been from the moment the first Europeans arrived in the United States. Which raises the question: is there freedom for Black people on this soil? Can the soil be transformed? And if not, what does that say about the prospects of Black folk in the US of ever being materially and psychologically free from the confines of a white patriarchal capitalist imperialist society?
SO graphic and intense but obviously she is forever the queen of exposing racism
When the book is so good, you finish it and instantly want to read it again.