美国文学史上长期以来都是白人占据主流地位,20世纪二三十年代,从哈莱姆文艺复兴运动开始,美国黑人文学开始崛起,但黑人男性作家仍占据着美国黑人文坛的主导地位,直到20世纪六七十年代,黑人女性文学才得到了初步发展,在美国文坛上一批黑人女作家才开始占据一席之地,而托妮·莫里森就是黑人女性作家的杰出代表。 The history of American literature has long been dominated by white people. From the 1920s and 1930s, Afro-American literature began to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, but black male writers still dominated the Afro-American literary world until 20 In the 1960s and 1970s, the black female literature got its initial development. A group of black women writers began to occupy a place in the American literary world. Toni Morrison was an outstanding representative of black female writers.