Abstract

Black woman writer Toni Morrison is one of the greatest contemporary American writers in the 20th century. What’s more, she was the first Afro-American woman awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. Her most representative work is her fifth novel—Beloved. The novel is based on a true story and it tells a story that the black woman Sethe experienced fleeing, fighting, isolation and breakdown, finally obtained the meaning of existence during the period of the American South in the Era of Reconstruction. The narrative art of Beloved has unique fragmentary narration and different focalizations narration and the novel forms a unique narrative art and has a profound aesthetic value.  

Key words: Beloved; fragmentary narration; focalization- 

CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

Introduction1

Chapter1 Fragmentary Narration in Beloved.2

1.1 Incoherent Narration.3

1.2 Interaction of the Past and the Present4

1.3 Stream of Consciousness of Narration .5

Chapter2 Different Focalizations Narration in Beloved5

2.1 Zero Focalization.6 

2.2 External Focalization6

2.3 Internal Focalization.7

Conclusion9

Works Cited.10