A Narratological Analysis of Intergenerational Trauma in Beloved开题报告

 2023-02-21 09:58:57

1. 研究目的与意义

As one of the masterpieces of Toni Morrison, the first black woman who won the Nobel Price in Literature, Beloved play an very important role in the history of world literature. The analysis of Beloved from various aspects once experienced a boom and the influence of them still endure and make a difference to literature even in the most recent years. When it comes to slavery, the miseries and sufferings often flooded in. However, the aim of analyzing trauma is not to repeat agony, it offers a more objective and rational perspective to the audience, which could help deepen the subject and appreciate the purposes of the author. To explore the revision and recovery of trauma, combining individual voices with collective narrative voices to convey what they suffered then they would cure themselves. The author presents to us the vivid living life of black people, voices for the black woman and appeal to the descendants to remember and to heal through communicating in the community.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

the Trauma Narrative in Beloved

Revisiting trauma through narrative and find the power of narrative in healing trauma.

Introduction

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3. 国内外研究现状

1. Researches on Beloved Aboard

The studies aboard on one of Toni Morrison’s masterpieces-Beloved are large, and there are many aspects existing in the scholars’ analysis in this field, including the topics, maternal love, African-American culture and slavery, and the structures, such as narrative techniques, rhetoric and languages etc. According to the content in Beloved, the author centered around Sethe’s life and presented to us the broad living picture of black female and black community, then the analysis of racial and sexual discrimination alongside with feminism naturally followed. And the most recent years have seen a new aspect emerging- eco-feminism. Trauma, as one of the analytic topics in Beloved, often goes with slavery. To a large certain degree, the whole story was created in the aftermath of slave trade,which makes for the whole disaster. And it is on this aspect that the scholars most focused to analyze trauma. The intergenerational trauma is one branch, which the scholars tried to explore between generations. Some papers pay attention to connect memory with trauma and analyze the attitudes and response of main characters to trauma and actually did some researches on descendants of slaves, who accordingly helps signifying history. To remember or to forget, that is a question. Some others explain thoroughly the trauma itself and its influence. As Toni Morrison once claimed that her work was not meant to recall the suffering but to bring some hope to people, the audience and the whole black community, so the analysis of trauma also explore the revision and recovery of trauma, which echoes with the author’s purpose and deepen the subject. One of the typical perspective used in analyzing Beloved is narrative, some papers have tried to link post-classical narratology with narrative analysis, some refer to narrative voices, a communal narrative for example, is often mentioned to describe the community.

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4. 计划与进度安排

Introduction

1. Literature Review

1.1 Researches on Beloved Aboard

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5. 参考文献

  1. Lanser, Susan S. The Authority of Fiction: Women Writers and Narrative Voices. Trans. Huang Bikang. Beijing: Peking University press, 2002, pp.17.

  2. Taylor-Guthrie, Danille, ed. Conversations with Toni Morrison. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994(6), pp.257.

  3. Liting Jia. An Analysis of Narrative Perspective and Modes of Presentation in Beloved within the Framework of Postclassical Narratology. 2020, ICEMBE

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