托妮·莫里森是美国黑人女作家,她试图借助文学创作这一方式来记录黑人在美国主流文化中所面临的尴尬处境和文化的缺失现状,于是描写族裔文化身份则成为莫里森创作中不变的主题。莫里森指出,非裔黑人处在白人世界的文化氛围中,导致了自我文化身份的缺失,对黑人本民族的传统文化愈加的疏远,进而造成了非裔美国人在白人文化中丧失了自我,为此,莫里森认为要重新构建黑人的文化身份就需要深入到黑人的文化中心。值得注意的 Toni Morrison, an Afro-American female writer, tried to use the way of literature creation to record the blacks’ embarrassment and lack of culture in mainstream American culture. Thus, the description of ethnic and cultural identities became Morrison Creative theme. Morrison pointed out that Afro-African people in the white world’s cultural atmosphere, led to the lack of identity of self-culture, the black culture of the more traditional culture of alienation, which led to African-Americans in the white culture lost self To this end, Morrison believes that to reconstruct the cultural identity of black people need to go deep into the black cultural center. worth taking note of