《乐园》是当代美国黑人女作家托妮·莫里森获得诺贝尔奖后写的第一部作品,一经出版便轰动美国文坛。小说深刻地描述了身处性别歧视和种族歧视双重压迫下的黑人女性求取自我解放的艰辛历程。而崛起于二十世纪八九十年代的后殖民女性主义理论致力于寻求建立一种适应后殖民文化背景下妇女文本的理论模式和阐释策略,为解读《乐园》的主题提供了一个独到的视角。 “Paradise” is the first work written by contemporary African American woman writer Toni Morrison after winning the Nobel Prize. Once published, it has touched the American literary world. The novel profoundly describes the difficult process of self-liberation of black women under the dual oppression of sexism and racial discrimination. The postcolonial feminist theory that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s endeavored to find a theoretical model and interpretation tactics to adapt to the texts of women under the background of post-colonial culture and provided a unique perspective for interpreting the theme of “Paradise” .