语言即解放：对美国经典的再思(托妮·莫里森) Language as Liberation:Reflections on the American Canon

基本信息

Publisher：Knopf

Publication date：February 3, 2026

Language：English

Print length：240 pages

ISBN-10：0593802748

ISBN-13：978-0593802748

Item Weight：1.49 pounds

Dimensions：6.13 x 0.66 x 9.25 inches

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书籍简介

诺贝尔文学奖得主、普利策奖得主、《宠儿》的作者托妮·莫里森，深入探讨了美国文学经典中的黑人角色，以及他们如何塑造了美国的集体无意识。

在她担任普林斯顿大学教授期间的一系列精彩讲座中，托妮·莫里森审视了美国知名的作品和作家，并指出，从缔造美国的黑人群体到许多美国经典白人作家笔下塑造的黑人角色，两者之间存在着直接的联系。莫里森将这些虚构作品视为一种创造和投射，认为它们有助于构建美国的种族认同——正如莫里森所写，这些“非洲主义”的存在是“使光明成为可能的阴影”，也是其作者自身深层的恐惧、不安和渴望的反映。

莫里森以渊博的学识和敏锐的洞察力，对美国经典著作进行了充满活力、引人入胜的解读，彻底颠覆了美国人对种族的固有观念，揭示了我们摆脱这些日渐式微的观念的关键在于语言。“莫里森不禁发问：‘我们该如何谈论利润、经济、劳动、进步、妇女参政权、边疆、新国家的建立、新土地的获取……几乎所有一个新生国家所关注的事物——而不将非洲人及其后裔的存在作为参照，置于话语的核心或界定其边界？’”

阅读这些首次结集出版的讲稿，就如同以一种深刻而颠覆性的方式，与莫里森——这位作家兼教师——相遇。 《语言作为解放》一书由她的儿子福特·莫里森作序，普林斯顿大学比较文学系的同事克劳迪娅·布罗德斯基作引言，是一部具有启示意义的文集，有望重新定义美国文学经典。

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.

In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that built the nation to the Black characters that many of the country’s canonical white writers imagined in their work. Morrison sees these fictions as a form of creation and projection, arguing that they helped manufacture American racialidentity—these “Africanist” presences are “the shadow that makes light possible,” as Morrison writes, and the reflections of their authors’ own deepest fears, insecurities, and longings.

With profound erudition and wit, Morrison breaks wide open the American conception of race with energetic, enlivening readings of the nation’s canon, revealing that our liberation from these diminishing notions comes through language. “How,” Morrison wonders, “could one speak of profit, of economy, of labor, or progress, of suffragism, of the frontier, of the formation of new states, the acquisition of new lands . . . of practically anything a new nation concerns itself with—without having as a referent, at the heart of the discourse or defining its edges, the presence of Africans and/or their descendants?”

To read these lectures, collected here for the first time, is to encounter Morrison, not just the writer but also the teacher, in the most penetrating and subversive way yet. With a foreword by her son Ford Morrison and an introduction by her Princeton comparative literature colleague Claudia Brodsky, Language as Liberation is a revelatory collection that promises to redefine the American canon.

作者简介

托妮·莫里森著有十一部长篇小说和三部散文集。至2006年，她担任普林斯顿大学罗伯特·F·戈恩人文讲席教授。她曾荣获美国国家书评人协会奖、普利策奖，并于1993年获得诺贝尔文学奖。她于2019年去世。

TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. To 2006, Morrison was the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.