托里.莫里森用《宠儿》一书纪念那些在奴隶贸易中死去的先祖。书中一个幽灵般的宠儿唤醒了对于奴隶制噩梦般的记忆。宠儿与家人的重聚使得那些不愿被提及的往事得以重新审视。宠儿同时也承载了对与历史的双重意识:她既要常驻在回忆里,又要适时的被忘却。这种双重意识体现了作者对于历史的态度:历史是一个民族的不竭源泉,回忆历史是为了常念常新,以史为鉴;忘却是为了把握现在,迎向未来。 Tori Morrison used Beloved to honor those ancestors who died in the slave trade. A spooky darling of the book awakens a nightmarish memory of slavery. The reunification of darling with family makes re-examination of events unwilling to be mentioned. Beloved also carries a double consciousness of history: she must be resident in the memory, but also timely be forgotten. This dual consciousness embodies the author’s attitude toward history: history is an inexhaustible source of the nation, recalling history as being often new and taking history as reference, and forgetting to grasp the present and facing the future.