As the first African American woman winner of the Nobel Prize for literature,Toni Morrison is the most noteworthy writer in contemporary African American literature. She earnestly appeals to the folks of her race to take root in the fertile soil of their own traditions and culture,to heal their emotional,psychological and cultural wound and to reconstruct black consciousness. This essay analyzed reasons for those black 's self-hatred through a series of symptoms.
Toni Morrison's novels revealed distorted relations of blacks' family.Among those relations,the most distinguishing relation is the one between mothers and their daughters.This essay mainly analyzed maternal love lacking in Beloved and The Bluest Eye.
