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This monograph integrates historical context, theoretical research and literary reading practice. It adopts multi-faceted gender theory and body theory in the field of current African American literature and cultural criticism. It starts from the text and adopts the principle of combining theoretical analysis and text close reading. Focusing on the three dimensions of gender, body and history, it conducts in-depth research on the body in the novels of African American female writer Toni Morrison. At the same time, this book also conducts a single analysis of issues such as race, identity, and social class reflected in Morrison's works from a multi-faceted feminist perspective, and strives to expand the research on Morrison's works.

Xihaigu, Ningxia, was designated as an unsuitable place for human survival by the United Nations Food and Development Program in 1972. There is a girl there, bearing the pressure of poverty on her young shoulders. Her name is Ma Yan. She has been keeping diaries since she was in the fourth grade of elementary school. She wrote down her desire to go to school and her worries about dropping out of school in her diaries. By the time she graduated from elementary school, she had saved 6 diaries. Three of them were smoked by my father as cigarette papers. In 2001, her diary fell into the hands of a French journalist from Paris, and like a bottle containing a message for help, it successfully reached the other side. In 2003, the French version of "Ma Yan's Diary" was published in Paris, and it quickly topped the best-seller list in France. The Dutch, Spanish, and English versions were successively released. Ma Yan donated part of her royalties to the French Ningxia Children's Foundation to provide education for poor children in her hometown. She has currently funded hundreds of Ningxia children.

"Reading and Ups and Downs of Joy" was the name Ma Yan proposed for his first collection of essays before his death. The introduction of the manuscript she wrote for herself is: Essays on reading life, focusing on ancient poetry and world literature, which focus on three themes: creative writing skills in the sense of style and pragmatics, the communication of reading aesthetic experience, and the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture. About thirty essays of less than 5,000 words are used to support each other and construct a rich reading life scene with personal aesthetic tendencies and intellectual characteristics. Through the author's unique knowledge background and theoretical structure, he shares a new reading vision and possibility with readers. The new edition not only restores the title of the book, but also restores all of Ma Yan's self-selected chapters and arrangement order, which may allow a new generation of readers to identify the true nature of Ma Yan's life before he encountered the accident. This is the first volume of this book. The remaining articles in the old edition, as the second volume, are classified as "outside the collection" and are arranged in the order of writing time. The third series is still a diary selection from the old version. "Ten years, although a short period of time, seems to be enough for both the dead and the living to shed their sorrowful and sad faces, and for a true life to be reborn from the ashes, as long as her poems and words are still joyful in the hearts of countless readers who don't know her."