美国黑人女作家托妮·莫里森是当代美国文学研究中的焦点和热点之一。她的小说作品蕴涵着深刻的主题思想和丰富的人物形象,体现作者高超的叙事艺术,为美国文学乃至世界文学作出了巨大的贡献。值得注意的是,莫里森的小说创作恰逢20世纪后半叶以来各种批评理论相继兴起的作出时代,因而批评界对其作品的整体评价和诠释一直处于发展变化之中。神话一原型批评、女性主义批评、文化批评、生态批评以及多角度多方法的交叉研究无 Toni Morrison, a black American woman writer, is one of the hot spots in contemporary American literature. Her novel works contain profound theme and rich characters, reflecting the author’s superb art of narrative and making great contributions to American literature and even world literature. It is noteworthy that Morrison’s novel creation coincided with the rise of various criticisms since the second half of the 20th century. Therefore, the critics’ overall evaluation and interpretation of his works have been in the process of development and change. Myth-Prototype Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Cultural Criticism, Ecocriticism and Multi-angle and Multi-method Cross-study