1993年获得诺贝尔文学奖之前,托尼.莫里森作为“一个广受人尊敬的二十世纪晚期的重要美国作家”的地位就已经确立了。1987年发表的小说《宠儿》中的复杂的爱与索取的母女关系体现了西哲先行者黑格尔的主奴关系机制。主人公塞丝在对记忆与爱的给予中获得了自我意识的独立,实现了奴隶身份的解放。 Tony Morrison’s position as a “respected American writer of the late twentieth century” was established before he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. The complicated love and mother-daughter relationship in the 1987 novel Beloved reflects the master-slave relationship mechanism of Hegel, the pioneer of the Western philosophy. Sei Si, the hero, gained independence of self-awareness in the giving of memory and love, and realized the liberation of slave identity.