莫里森小说《宠儿》以祖母贝比·萨格斯、主人公塞丝、小女儿丹芙这三代人为线索,表现了作为个体黑人的自我意识从缺失走向觉醒的过程。而个体的自我探寻与黑人民族身份的建构密不可分,只有个体觉醒才能树立成熟的民族意识,走出奴隶制的阴影。 Morrison’s novel “Beloved” takes the clues of the three generations of her grandmother, Babe Sags, her daughter Cecil, and her daughter Denfueh, as a manifestation of the process of self-awareness as an individual negro toward arousal. However, individual self-exploration is inseparable from the construction of black national identity. Only individual awakening can establish a mature national consciousness and walk out of the shadow of slavery.