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Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture--The Looting of Language,is one of the greatest lectures in contemporary American literature.This paper attempts to analyze this lecture from the perspective of post-colonialism.Tony Morrison implies the event of colonization and its corollary in her lecture.She uses the“bird-in-hand”to imply the language of the colonized writers,the old blind woman to imply a colonized writer and the group of young men to imply the colonizers.The only way out for saving the language of the colonized writers from oppression,as she puts forward,is the joint efforts of the two cultures,combining both advantages of white culture and black culture,and advancing towards their“bird”in unison.
Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture - The Looting of Language, is one of the greatest lectures in contemporary American literature. This paper attempts to analyze this lecture from the perspective of post-colonialism. Tony Morrison implies the event of colonization and its corollary in her lecture .She uses the “bird-in-hand ” to imply the language of the colonized writers, the old blind woman to imply a colonized writer and the group of young men to imply the colonizers. The only way out for saving the language of the colonized writers from oppression, as the joint efforts of the two cultures, combining both advantages of white culture and black culture, and advancing towards their “bird ” in unison.