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The Cultural Metaphor of Black People’s Diet in Toni Morrison’s Novels

Author: KongZhen
Tutor: WangHuaXue
School: Shandong Normal University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Toni Morrison Diet Metaphorical meaning Cultural identity
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Toni Morrison is a very famous black writer, was the first one won the Nobel Prize for Literature African-American writer, her works are echoed every sound of black culture. In her work, though we can clearly feel between blacks and whites direct and indirect conflict, but left a deep impression on the reader is a diet that have metaphorical imagery. In Toni Morrison's works, diet is often used to shape the character and their position in society, she also has a metaphorical meaning often use these to explore the artistic image of African-American cultural identity and seek a way out of black culture . Although Morrison works on research and commentary has been quite extensive and in-depth, but it is still a lot of space research. For this diet works through Morrison behind the metaphorical meaning of this imagery to explore the African-American to be marginalized and the oppressed of the world how architecture black culture in American society to survive the road, from African Americans and whites to racial and cultural confrontation to reflect upon the black people and cultural traditions. Morrison first chapter focuses on the creation of art and its research status. She is a creative theme with black fate as novelist, winning both her six novels published before, or after winning the two outer two published novels, regarded a century fate of the people of this nation as a concern goals, write them in the haze of racism still exists in American society misfortune, she actively seeks way out of the black people's culture. Her literary creation as human development can not be underestimated left a spiritual wealth. The second chapter focuses on eating this all has a metaphorical meaning artistic image, imagery from these diets, Morrison dig out the underlying values ??of the black culture. Black history is a sad history of humiliation, personal and racial oppression torn black soul, brutal slavery and cultural harm caused by their spiritual solitude, depressed, anxious, perverted, hatred, and even appetite distortions. For Morrison, the food and racial and gender differences related destiny. Blacks in American history homeless situation, resulting in African Americans on food cravings. By reading about Morrison's works depict scenes of food, we can see both black and white cultural conflicts; blacks on survival desire for power and personal freedom, as well as between blacks and whites slave class antagonism and struggle. Blacks living in the natural diet and eating habits and pastoral values ??are always associated with good interpersonal and connected with health hope phase dependence, which in turn are related to national culture and even national destiny. The third chapter focuses on the diet from Morrison novel metaphors, the reproduction Morrison always looking for the problem, that is way out of the black race and culture, expressing blacks determine their own cultural identity and a return home to ethnic and cultural The importance. Since blacks were trafficked to America, you cut off contact with their homeland, ancestral language, customs, no longer appears in their lives, there is always a kind of cultural loneliness and sense of drift. Ethnic heritage can blacks get a sense of belonging and self-identity. For Morrison, the cultural heritage refers not only to the nation's history, culture, tradition, religion, including family history, which contains infinite national spirit and cohesion. Culture both individuals and groups based on self-identification, but also a nation based on the community to maintain their status and integrity of the nation.

The Cultural Metaphor of Black People’s Diet in Toni Morrison’s Novels

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