托尼·莫里森是当代美国黑人文坛小说家的杰出代表。1988年获得普利策奖的《宠儿》作为其历史三部曲中第一部,也是其荣膺1993年诺贝尔文学奖的基石作品。在小说中,莫里森从一名非裔女作家的视角,追溯了一百多年前,尘封在黑人记忆中的历史。在对历史的追溯中,莫里森打破传统的叙事模式,借助喻指这一非洲传统文化中独有的修辞手段,重新构筑了黑人民族的历史。喻指是黑人独具特色的语言修辞实践, Tony Morrison is an outstanding representative of the contemporary Afro-American literary novelist. The “Beloved,” Pulitzer Prize, won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first of its trilogy of history. In the novel, Morrison traces the history of black dust memories more than 100 years ago from the perspective of an Afro-American woman writer. In retrospect of history, Morrison broke away from the traditional narrative model and reconstructed the history of the black nation by referring to the unique rhetorical device of this traditional African culture. Metaphor refers to the black language unique rhetorical practice,