《宠儿》是托尼·莫里森的代表作,讲述的是黑人女性塞丝为逃离奴隶制不惜杀死自己亲生女儿的故事。作为一位来自边缘的作家和批评家,她的小说着重描写被美国社会边缘化的黑人的生存,传播的是他者的声音。从后殖民视角解读《宠儿》,揭露奴隶制废除前后,在白人主导的美国社会黑人被限制、排斥、甚至剥夺了生存权力。而莫里森也正是通过对他者生存的关注来表现其颠覆话语的。 “Beloved” is Tony Morrison’s masterpiece, about the story of the black female Seth who escaped from slavery at the same time killing her own daughter. As a writer and critic from the periphery, her novel focuses on the survival of blacks marginalized by American society, spreading the voices of others. From the perspective of postcolonialism, “Beloved” was interpreted and the blacks dominated by the white people were restricted, excluded and even deprived of their right to subsistence before and after the abolition of slavery was uncovered. And Morrison also manifested his subversive discourse through his concern for the survival of the other.