托妮·莫里森的小说《宠儿》讲述了奴隶制及其余毒对黑人造成的肉体和心灵的创伤,但莫里森所强调的并非仅仅是苦难和创伤本身,更为重要的是提供一剂治疗黑人精神创伤的良方。小说通过对女主人公塞丝命运的展示,指出黑人奴隶要走出苦难的阴影、愈合心灵的创伤,必须在短暂的忘却后重现回忆,在记忆与忘却的良性平衡中去拥抱新的生活。 Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved” tells of the physical and spiritual trauma caused by slavery and other poisones to Negroes, but Morrison emphasizes not only misery and trauma itself, but more importantly provides one A remedy for black trauma. The novel shows that the fate of the heroines, Seth, points out that the black slaves should get out of the shadow of suffering and heal the wounds of the soul. They must recall the memories after a brief forgetfulness and embrace the new life in the benign balance between memory and forgetting.