文档介绍：AStudy ofTrauma inToniMorrison,S Jazz AThesis Submitted to Foreign Studies College OfHunan Normal University InPartialFulfillment oftheRequirements FortheDegree ofMaster ofArts intheSubject of English Language and Literature By Gong Zixian Under theSupervision of Associate Professor Yao Peizhi Changsha,Hunan May,2013 Abstract Jazz,Toni Morrison’S sixthnovel,is abook thatrecords traumatic experiences ofAfrican Americans ,revealing traumatic experiences is not Morrison’S she explores is how tohelp black people recover from some critics have directed their attention on the relation between characters’trauma and safeplace inJazz,they lack asystematic study. Based on trauma theory,the present study investigates characters’trauma frommultiple levels,covering safeplace importantly, the investigation emphasizes Morrison’Sviewpoints of trauma and recovery. This thesis contains three parts:introduction,the main body and main body consists of three One elucidates thetrauma thatthetwo femalecharacters一衍olet and Dorcas root oftheirtrauma can beascribed tolossofsafespace. Safe space,which means aspace or astate that one can findsafety and feelsafe,is thecrucial element forblack ofparental lovemainly gives rise tOVioletand Dorcas’loss ofsafespace. Chapter Two analyzes thetrauma caused by identity with two male characters,Joe Trace andGolden Gray forparents can be regarded as their pursuit of indefinite identity according to to confirm their identity,Joe and Golden Gray evidently display traumaticsymptoms. Chapter Three approaches the possibility of trauma recovery. Morrison shows the significance munication inthe process of trauma music and dialogues,African Americans can recollect theirtraumatic past,alleviate andhealtheir haunted trauma. The conclusion offers afurther discussion