莫莉生及歐慈皆為當代著名的女性作家,兩位皆以受壓迫的女性為主
角,來呈現父權,種族歧視,及資本主義社會中的問題,並且提供女性們一些
有尊嚴的生存之道. 本論文試圖研究諸位女性角色在面臨不公平的社會時
所呈現的自我,並且強調於研究少數具有強烈自我意識的女性角色. 全
文共分四章,首章簡介兩位作者,本文所研究的作品及作者們的寫作目的.
首章亦包括父權種族歧視及資本主義社會對女性及黑人的壓迫,本論文研
究動機及方法與本論文各章的簡介.次章闡述莫莉生的寫作用意及期許並
分析作品中諸位女性角色中的自我,尤其是百樂具有自覺的女性自我.第三
章包括歐慈與其作品的關係,女主角凱拉(Calla)及敘述者的自我意識及作
者對未來兩性相處的期許.第四章試分析黑人女性及白人女性所面臨相似
及相異的壓迫與其生存之道.

Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates are famous contemporary
feministwriters, they both vividly describes the oppressed
female characters in their works to present the problems in a
patriarchal, racist and capitalisticsociety. Both of them offer
many valuable survival strategies to these oppressed women. In
the study, I attempt to examine the oppressed female'sselfhood
as demonstrated in the works. There are four chapters in
this thesis. Chapter one introduces the authors and their works,
as well as the purposes contained in these works. This chapter
also discusses the oppression in the patriarchal, racist and
capitalisticsociety toward women and blacks. Chapter two
examines Morrison's motivationand expectation and the female
characters' selfhood in Song of Solomonfocusing especially on
Pilate's self-determing selfhood. Chapter three presents the
relationship between Oates and her work, Calla's and the
narrator's selfhood, and Oates' expectation toward future.
Chapter four focuses on the similar and different oppression
between black women and white women and the survival strategies
for women in an oppressive society.