托妮·莫里森是美国当代最重要的作家之一,同时也是历史上第一位荣获诺贝尔文学奖的黑人女作家。在其诸多作品中,莫里森凭借深刻的洞察力和独树一帜的叙事风格向世人展现了一个不为外人所熟知的黑人世界。丰富多彩的传统黑人文化是她创作的源泉,神话和宗教原型的运用在作品中随处可见,例如死亡、复活原型,自然母亲原型,飞翔原型等等。她认为这些原型都是黑人文化的内在组成部分:“黑人神话的成分在黑人文化的各部分都存在,如音乐,宗教学,神灵学,爵士乐等。它也存在于我们的谈话,以及民间传说里的人 Toni Morrison is one of the most important contemporary writers in the United States and is also the first black woman writer in history to win the Nobel Prize for literature. In many of his works, Morrison, with his profound insight and unique style of narration, has shown the world a black world that is not known to outsiders. The colorful traditional black culture is the source of her creation. The use of myths and religious prototypes is everywhere in the works, such as the death, the prototype of the resurrection, the prototype of the mother of nature, the flying prototype and so on. She argues that these archetypes are an integral part of black culture: ”The components of black myths exist in all parts of black culture, such as music, religion, theology, jazz, etc. It also exists in our conversations, as well as civilians Legendary people