LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Black Women and Racial Stereotypes: A Black Feminist Reading of Morrison’s Novels

KhamsaQasim
Mazhar Hayat
Uzma Asmat

Challenging the Negative Representation of Black Women

Many black women writers have challenged the negative representation of black women in their fiction but Morrison’s novels not only challenge those stereotypes but also destroy them. Her novels give us deep insight into black women’s minds and souls. She makes us listen to the voice of the suppressed group who are left out of literature. Black women are not positively defined by the dominant discourse. In her novels, she presents black women as subjects who try to cultivate positive identity in a very hostile world.

Collins in Black Feminist Thought points out the logic behind the negative representation of black women. She says that no system of oppression can work without “powerful ideological justification.”1 Thus the portrayal of black women as the breeders, mammies, matriarchs, and hot girls, women with the deviant sexuality, welfare recipients and the ugly and unfeminine creatures justifies their oppression. The portrayal of black women as others is enough to justify any kind of oppression. This negative representation has caused great harm to them and presents just the one side of reality. It distorts their true image. Morrison makes us see the other side of the coin. Thus the destruction of those prevailing and controlling images gives birth to a new definition.

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Khamsa Qasim
Lecturer in English
Govt. College University
Fiasalabad
Pakistan
khamsaqasim@yahoo.com

Mazhar Hayat
Assisstant Professor
Govt College University
Faisalabad
Pakistan

Uzma Asmat
Lecturer in English
Govt.College University
Faisalabad
Pakistan
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