LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 1 January 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Treatment of Violence: A Study of Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye and Beloved

Shubhanku Kochar, M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Chapter 1        Introduction

Chapter 2        Treatment of violence in The Bluest Eye

Chapter3        Treatment of violence in Beloved

Chapter 4        Conclusion

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Introduction

Toni Morrison is one of the well-known Afro-American female writers. Along with the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, she also received Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. Her novels have received wide recognition not only from the common reader but from the critics and reviewers as well. A vast range of critical acumen has been spent on her fiction. Her novels have been subjected to multiple readings. In fact, there is no dearth of critical material on Toni Morrison. However, there are areas such as treatment of violence which, as it seems, call for a more thorough and incisive examination than has been done so far.

The Bluest Eye, her first novel, for example, has been read variously by different critics. Several trends immediately become perceptible as one reads the existing critical material. For example, Wilfred D. Samuels and Clenora Hudson Weems1 in their essay, “The Damaging Look: The Search for Authentic Existence in The Bluest Eye,” argue about the authentic existence. Their main point is that people can only live authentically, if they define themselves as they are. The paper also examines the cause of Pecola’s tragedy with Sartrean perspective in mind. Their conclusion is that though the external forces are responsible in determining character, it is the individual who is largely responsible for his or her authentic or inauthentic existence.

This is only the beginning part of the dissertation. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE DISSERTATION IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Shubhanku Kochar, M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor
Lady Irwin College
University of Delhi
New Delhi 110001
India
shubhankukochar@live.com
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