本篇論文探討東妮莫里森七本小說中的共同主題。 莫里森小說的相同點之一為全面性的專注於變態行為在種族社會中的表現方式。 本文研究兩種不同的變態行為：第一種為黑人對於自殺與殺人的迷戀。 在面對由種族與社區壓力所造成無法解決的痛苦與困境時，這些與暴力相關的症狀顯示黑人的心靈在面對創傷後所呈現出來的混亂與無法逃脫的兩難狀況。 本論文中的變態著重於描繪這些相關的異常行為。 而另一種黑人日常行為變態的呈現為他們本身強烈的性變態趨勢。 莫理森小說不斷出現的性變態有如百科全書般地將所有的性變態全盤列出，其中包括強暴、亂倫、通姦、戀童癖、獸姦、戀屍癖、虐待狂、與受虐狂。 解讀莫理森的小說世界使我們了解她對變態心理學與社會犯罪學的深入涉獵。 因此許多心理受創所造成的變態呈現不斷地融入且出現在她的小說世界中。 所以在探討黑人社區世界的同時、心理與生理的變態成為焦點中心。
本論文分為五章。 序言到第二章強調變態行為的起源因素。 序言探討莫理森的小說世界，對有強烈慾望的黑人女性與受創慾望的黑人男性做了詳細的分析。 第一章專注無家可歸與無依無靠的氣氛在黑人家庭中的存在威脅。 這種無家的感受與黑人對於成為黑人這個事實中所表現出咎由自取的不良態度，都必須對於他們本身的變態負責。 第二章分析社會與種族在流行時尚與壓迫中塑造與重塑黑人本身的身分感與自卑感。 第三章詳細地揭露所有的性變態。 第四章討論自殺與殺人症候群與創傷後主體的關聯性，且對於此主體成為以自我為中心的人格轉變和其對外在事物的強烈否決現象加以探討。

This dissertation focuses on one of the dominant narrative themes in Toni Morrison’s seven novels: her obsession with racial representations of perverse behaviors. The first perversity consists of black characters’ infatuation with suicide and homicide when they encounter insoluble agony and predicament, caused by racial and communal stresses. The pervasiveness of violence-related psychological syndrome demonstrates the disordered unbalance and inescapable confinement of black people’s traumatized minds. The other perverse representation of black people’s daily routines is their sexual perversity, whose omnipresence in all her novels forms a world characterized by an encyclopedic portrayal of perversity in all its diversity, including rape, incest, adultery, pedophilia, zoophilia, necrophilia, sadism, and masochism. Discussions of Morrison’s novels reveal that she is intimately familiar with abnormal psychology and social criminology. In each of her novels, she infuses every ingredient with abnormal representations of psychological traumas. Her depiction of the communal world of black people turns out to be an unraveling of psychological and biological perversity.
This dissertation is divided into five chapters. The Introductory chapter begins with a general discussion of Morrison’s novelistic world of desiring black women and the black men with frustrated desires. Chapter Two concentrates on the domestic impact on black people’s mental situations. Homeless and dispossessed feelings incessantly haunt the sufferings of black people. Their self-inflicted attitude toward their blackness is the key to negritude. Black people’s subsequent perverse behaviors owe much to their family backgrounds and to their own self-negrification. Chapter Three analyzes how social and racial fashion and oppression constantly shape and reshape black people’s sense of identity and inferiority complex. Chapter Four exposes black people’s sexual perversity in detail. Chapter Five discusses suicide/homicide syndrome and emphasizes black people’s post-traumatic subjectivity, which appears as egoistic, entangling with their strong sense of possessiveness and negativity.

A. Books by Toni Morrison
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
---. Sula. New York: Plume, 1973.
---. Song of Solomon. New York: Plume, 1987.
---. Tar Baby. New York: Plume, 1981.
---. Beloved. London: Pan Books, 1988.
---. Jazz. New York: Plume, 1993.
---. Paradise. New York: Plume, 1999.
---. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard UP, 1992.