佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿和托尼·莫里森分别在《他们眼望上苍》和《秀拉》中塑造了不朽的黑人女性形象。借用心理分析学家南茜·乔多萝的客体关系理论,从女性主义的视角,对比分析在种族、性别和阶层的桎梏下寻求独立的女主人公们与她们母亲间错综复杂的关系:母爱对女主人公来说或是分离的残酷现实,或是对自我成长的限制,或是难以摆脱的依恋,母亲的影响对女性性格的塑造、自我意识的发掘和女性身份的认同起到限制或推动性的作用。Two renowned black female writers Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison have portrayed the enduring images of the black women respectively in their novels Their Eyes were Watching God and Sula.The feminist psychoanalyst Nancy Chodorow's theory of the reproduction of mothering is applied to analyze the complicated relations between the three heroines and their mothers living under the fetters of racism, sexism and classism- maternal bonds could be cruel separation or restriction of one's selfhood or unbreakable attachment for the heroines- in order to shed light on the mothers' restrictive or empowering influence on the formations of their daughters' personality,self-awareness and their identity as a black female in the society
