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''God Help the Child'' is a novel by American writer Toni Morrison. The book is her 11th novel. News of the book, as well as the title and opening line were released in December 2014. On February 9, 2015, The New Yorker published an excerpt from the work under the title ''Sweetness''. It was first published by Alfred A. Knopf on April 30, 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/toni_morrison_to_release_new_n.html )〕 ==Plot== A young girl with blue-black skin is neglected and abused by the light skinned parents who are ashamed of her. Lula Ann Bridewell, who calls herself “Bride”, is blue-black beautiful, the kind of woman who turns heads wherever she goes. She is tall, elegant, and dresses only in white, the better to reflect her beauty. But Bride did not always know her beauty or how to wear it. As a child, her mother Sweetness punished Bride for her dark skin, which ended her marriage. Sweetness’s husband Louis could not bring himself to love a child with skin as dark as Bride’s. “We had three good years,” Sweetness tells us, “but when she was born, he blamed me and treated Lula Ann like she was a stranger, more than that, an enemy.” Her mother, meanwhile, insisted her child call her Sweetness instead of anything maternal. Bride grew up without love, tenderness, affection or apology. Sweetness makes it clear she saw herself as protecting her child from a world that would be even more inclined to punish Bride for the darkness of her skin. While Sweetness will apologize for her child’s dark skin, what she will not apologize for is how she sees the world and how she raises her child, saying: “Some of you probably think it’s a bad thing to group ourselves according to skin colour – the lighter, the better – in social clubs, neighbourhoods, churches, sororities, even coloured schools. But how else can we hold on to a little dignity?” This is what makes it so difficult to judge Sweetness’s choices. She should know better, but it is painfully clear her choices have been shaped by the realities of being black in a white world – a world where the lighter your skin, the higher you might climb. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「God Help the Child」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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