托尼·莫里森(Toni Morrison)是第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的非洲裔美国黑人女作家,其巨作《宠儿》(Beloved,1987)奠定了其作为一位杰出的美国小说家的地位。本文试图从爵士乐风格的文本特征和叙事策略来分析这部小说,指出作家将爵士乐的演奏方式运用到文学创作之中,从而将爵士乐这一美国黑人独创的艺术形式与小说完美地结合,体现了美国黑人文学独特的审美特征和艺术价值。 Toni Morrison was the first African-American black female writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His masterpiece, Beloved (1987), established her position as an outstanding American novelist . This article attempts to analyze the novel from the jazz style of text features and narrative strategies, pointing out that the writer applies the way of jazz performance to literary creation, so that jazz, the unique African-American art form and fiction, perfectly reflects the The Unique Aesthetic Features and Artistic Value of African American Literature.