Abstract:Sula is the second work of Toni Morrison, who is an American black woman writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. It mainly described a black girl Sula, who lived in a painful and absurd world and oppressed by the racial discrimination, class oppression and gender discrimination, however, she tried her best to fight against the world and pursued herself. Meanwhile, it also discussed human being’s survival significance. In this novel, existentialism had a great influence on it. This paper attempts to make an analysis on Sula from the perspective of existentialism — Sula’s absurd and painful world, Sula’s self pursuit and Sula’s failure of free choice. This research will help readers have a better understanding of Sula and other female images of Toni Morrison’s works.

Keywords: Sula ; existentialism; absurd; self-pursuit; free choice 

摘要:《秀拉》是美国黑人女作家1993年诺贝尔文学奖得主托尼.莫里森的第二部作品。它主要讲述了一个倍受种族、阶级、性别歧视的黑人女孩秀拉在痛苦、荒诞的环境中不顾一切的抗争和追寻自我的历程，并在这一过程中探讨了人类生存的意义。小说渗透了存在主义的思想。本文将从存在主义的角度来解读秀拉荒诞而痛苦的世界，秀拉的自我追求和自我选择的失败, 以期使读者对小说主人公秀拉有更好的了解，同时有助于理解托尼.莫里森作品中的其它黑人女性形象。

关键词：秀拉；存在主义；荒诞；自我追求；自由选择