托尼.莫里森是第一个获诺贝尔奖的非洲裔美国女作家。《宠儿》是莫里森的第五部作品,曾获普利策小说奖。作为世界名著,《宠儿》是她最负盛誉也最受争议的一部力作,其现代哥特手法的运用与革新,加强了种族主题的时代感。种族主题与哥特写作手法有机地结合,颠覆了西方种族主流文化思想。 Tony Morrison was the first African-American woman writer to win the Nobel Prize. Beloved is Morrison’s fifth work, won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel. As a famous person in the world, Beloved is one of her most prestigious and controversial masterpieces. The use and innovation of his modern Gothic practices have strengthened the sense of the times with a racial theme. The theme of the race is organically integrated with Gothic writing and subverts the dominant ethnic cultural ideas in the West.