托尼·莫里森(Toni Morrison,1931—)是美国文学史上第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的黑人女性,阿特伍特认为她是美国文学史上最杰出的小说家之一。[1]与莫里森同时代的非裔文学评论家小亨利·路易斯·盖茨在西方主流文论的基础之上,继承了索绪尔在语言学上的研究方式,构建了系统性的非裔美国文学批评体系即喻指理论体系,使其文学批评 Toni Morrison (1931-) was the first black woman in the history of American literature to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Attwood thought she was one of the most prominent novelists in the history of American literature. [1] Henry Louis Gates, a contemporary Afro-American literary critic with Morrison, based on Western mainstream literary theory, inherited Saussure ’s linguistic approach to research and established a systematic The system of African American literary criticism refers to the theoretical system to make it literary criticism