LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:1 January 2018
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Blacks Estrangement and Journey for Individuality in
the Select Novels of Toni Morrison

M. Thenmozhi, M.A., M.Phil.


Abstract

The persistent search for, and sometimes assertion of, an independent, integrated identity within a sphere that can be called one’s own has been an insistent theme in writing by Afro-Americans, both past and present. Blacks, who once enjoyed freedom in their own ancestral home, are deprived of freedom in the new world. In course of their long years of servitude, they lost their individuality and as a result felt estranged. One has to remember that these Africans were brought as slaves and experienced the enslavement for centuries.Toni Morrison achieved the impossible by becoming the first African – American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Here the author brings out the Blacks Estrangement and Journey for Individuality in the select novels of The Bluest Eye and Beloved.

Keywords: Black Feminism, Racism, Classism, Black Slavery, Communal Integration, Culturalism, Tony Morrison

Introduction

Toni Morrison achieved the impossible by becoming the first African – American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She has added substantially to the body of African – American literature through both the fiction and critical essays.

Her critical essays add immensely to the canon of African – American aesthetics. They enlarge on the theme of African – American women novelist’s role. They give a velar understanding of black life, society and culture.

This persistent search for and sometimes assertion of an independent, integrated identity within a sphere that can be called one’s own has been as insistent theme in writings by Afro – Americans both past and present. And Morrison has dealt with this theme in all her novels.Obviously the Afro – Americans of later generations knew very little about their own African culture and traditions. White American world, for certain, dominated them and as a result they didn’t feel at home. So they quest for their individuality that would recognize them basically as humans.

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M. Thenmozhi, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
Adhiyaman Arts and Science College for Women
Uthangarai 635207 Tamilnadu
India
honeyarul1992@gmail.com

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