这是由一篇博士论文改编而成的学术专著，全书以英文的形式呈现。本书认为，黑人文化被强加的失根症与主动的寻根特征是解读莫里森作品母爱主题的一个关键，但却一直为人们所忽略。本书试图从文化的角度，探询莫里森母爱主题在七部小说中的发展、深化及其文化寓意。

解放军外国语学院英语专业建立于1949年，是全国和全军的重点学科，拥有博士后科研流动站和博士学位授权点，目前具有博士学位的教师达20余名。

本文库是部分博士在国内各名牌院校知名学者教授指导下精心撰写的学术著作，计划每年出版5本，敬请关注。

Chapter One Introduction 

 1.1 Origin ofthe Study

 1.2 Maternal Love as a Trope 

 1.3 Morrison's Black Feminist Thinking 

 1.4 Format Ofthe Research 

Chapter Two Cultural Dispossession

 2.1 Pauline：A Victim of the White Norms of Beauty

 2.2 Geraldine and Helene：Loss of the“Funk”

 2.3 Ruth：A Prisoner of the Patriarchal House

Chapter Three Cultural Estrangement

 3.1 Sula：ARebelAgainsttheMaternal

 3.2 Jadine：A Cultural Orphan of Women’s

“Ancient Properties”

 3.3 Lack of Culture—Bearing Maternal Love  

Chapter Four Cultural Resistance  

 4.1 Eva’s Maternal Love and Pain：A Story Failed to

Pass on

 4.2 Recovering a History of Cultural Deprivation

 4.3 Sethe’s Reclamation ofMatemal Love and Resistance

Against Slavery：A Story Designated to Pass on

Chapter Five Cultural Healing

 5.1 Reclaiming the“Ancient Properties”and Healing

of Historical Trauma

 5.2 Exorcism of the Racist Ghosts Through

Reconciliation and Self-Love

 5.3 From Individual Healing to Communal Healing

Chapter Six Conclusion 

Bibliography

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