一、引言作为美国当今文坛最伟大的作家之一,托妮·莫里森的文学作品是西方文化和非裔黑人传统互为融入的典型代表。她深谙西方文化源泉《圣经》带给文学作品的感染力,在多部作品中借用了伊甸园神话的要素和情节,却又不落俗套。她的作品打破了早期美国黑人小说中黑人奴隶经历与《圣经·出埃及记》的惯性关联,将白人为自己的创世历史 I. INTRODUCTION As one of the greatest writers in the contemporary American literary world, Toni Morrison’s literary works are typical representatives of Western culture and African-American traditions. She is familiar with the appeal brought by the Bible as a source of Western culture to literary works and borrows the elements and plot of Eden’s mythology from many works, yet unconventional. Her work breaks the inertia of the black slave experience in the early Afro-American novels and the Bible, Exodus, placing whites as their own creation history