《秀拉》是美国黑人女作家托尼·莫里森的代表作之一,作品描写了20世纪20年代到60年代美国黑人社区的变化。用新历史主义的自我塑造理论,从历史的维度分析了黑人群体逐步觉悟以及塑造自我,创造黑人自己历史的过程,有利于揭示出作者寄希望于整个黑人群体,希望创造黑人自己历史的写作目的,有助于读者更好的把握小说中所暗含的权力颠覆和作者的写作目的。 Sula is one of the representative works of African-American lesbian Tony Morrison. The work depicts the changes of Afro-American communities from the 1920s to the 1960s. With the new historicist self-shaping theory, the process of gradually realizing the black group’s consciousness and self-creation and creating their own history from the perspective of history is helpful to reveal the author’s intention of writing to the entire black group in the hope of creating his own history. , Help readers to better grasp the power of subversion and author’s writing purpose implied in the novel.