An Analytical Study of Racism in Two of Toni Morrison’s Novels
Keywords:
Race, Black, Community, Whiteness, Standards, Slaves.Abstract
Toni Morrison is an incredible American novelist. In 1993,
she received the Nobel Prize in Literature, only the eighth woman
ever to do so, and the first black woman. Upon awarding the
prize, the Swedish Academy described her as a writer “who, in
novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives
life to an essential aspect of American reality.”[1]. Her novels
bring to light the dim lives of slaves. She tackles the relations
inside the African American society. Race, social class, slavery,
and gender are the main themes in Morrison's novels. Whiteness
in her novels is frightening the characters and preventing them
from getting their own identity in the society. In this paper, her
two novels The Bluest Eye and Beloved are tackled which shed
light on the ideas of racism, gender and oppression of black
people.
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