诺贝尔文学奖获得者托尼·莫里森是当代美国黑人文学的杰出代表,迄今已发表十部小说,作品刻画了美国黑人与主流社会的疏离及生存困境。从审美角度看,作品完美地体现了她所强调的文学的社会责任和审美诉求,表现了“崇高”这一西方重要的美学范畴,为当代美国黑人美学及西方美学的发展做出了重要的贡献。 Nobel Prize winner Tony Morrison is an outstanding representative of contemporary African American literature. So far, he has published ten novels. His works depict the estrangement and survival predicament of black Americans and the mainstream society. From the aesthetic point of view, the works perfectly embody the social responsibility and aesthetic appeal of literature emphasized by her, and show the western important aesthetics category of “sublime”, which makes the development of contemporary aesthetics of African aesthetics and western aesthetics Important contribution.