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合肥师范学院2012届本科生毕业论文（设计）Toni Morrison (1931-)is one of the most famous contemporary black writers.Morrison paysgreat attention to black people and has written a series of novels concerning black people's miserablefate.Toni Morrison's novels are famous for vivid dialogue,special themes and typical characters.In hernovels,Morrison profoundly explores the inner world of black people,including love,race,religiousbelief,alienation,friendship,and betrayal,sex,and even supernatural,especially African Americanwomen's privileged and sensitive observation.In her novels,she shows people,language,and societyconcepts of value,places,politics,and cultural traditions that have influenced African Americanpeople as well as herself.In 1993,Morrison won Nobel Prize for Literature.As the first African American who reached thehonor,she has gained reputation all over the world and has been famous as one of the major figures inAmerican national literature.Beloved is published in 1987 and is viewed as Morrison's best novel.The heroine of this novel isSethe,who fled from the Sweet Home----the plantation in Kentucky.While a posse arrives in Ohio andtries to capture her back,she kills her daughter and tries to kill the other three children.Filled withsuspense and bitter poetry,Beloved is an extraordinary achievement.Glaring at the abyss of slavery,this excellent novel portrays history in the form of a story,which is as meaningful as Exodus and assmooth as a lullaby.After publishing,this novel has gained a critical success.It won the many prizes.Moreover,it hasbeen adapted into film in 1998.Nowadays,the literary world still has a high praise for this novel,forexample,Chicago Sun-Time once regarded Beloved as Toni Morrison's best work and that this novelexcellently displays her prodigious.Los Angeles Times considered "it is even deemed to be such amasterwork that I can't imagine American literature can without it".However,there still are some controversial about the novel.On the one hand,critics consider it ismelodramatic even self-indulgent to some extent.On the other hand,admirers of the novel say thesecriticisms fail to appreciate Morrison's imaginative risks are necessitated in her magnitude topic.Based on so much argumentation,scholars from home and abroad are increasingly more.Consequently,I would like to illustrate a few of them as follows.To begin with,domestic scholars also attach much attention to this novel.Qi Jixiang,an instructorin Hebei Foreign Language Professional School,published an article on the interpretation of Beloved's