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Representation of Child Abuse and Treatment of Colourism in
Toni Morrison’s God Help The Child and The Bluest Eye
M.Phil. Dissertation
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil

R. Muthuselvi, M.A., M.Phil.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Literature is a term used to describe written and sometimes spoken material. It was derived from the Latin Word ‘Literatura’ which means ‘Writing formed with letters’. It is sometimes defined as ‘anything written’. Sartre’s what is literature article analyzed the literature in the sense of any writing and literature in the sense of verbal works of art. Robert Frost said, “Literature is a performance in words”. Another view holds that literature has in it, a sense of entertaining display and provides pleasure in addition to the element of ‘truth’ involved (http://www.english.ufl.edu). It represents the culture and tradition of a language or the people. It is more than just a historical or cultural artifact but can serve as an introduction to a new world of experience. It is one of the fine arts that employ ‘language’ as a medium of expression. It is essentially an expression of human feelings, emotions, sufferings and joys. Language or culture may be different but human sentiments remain essentially the same in all literatures of the world. The analysis of Sharma defines literature is a mirror of life. It reflects the feelings of human beings.

Feeling is not just a feeling; it holds the joy, sorrow, struggles, abuses, depression, oppression etc. This dissertation reveals such kind of abuse like child abuse and colourism. When a parent or caregiver, whether through action or falling to act causes injury, death, emotional harm or threat of serious harm to child. R. M. Prabha’s article Child Abuse in Toni Morrison’s Fiction revealed there are four main types of child maltreatment including neglection, physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional abuse. Child abuse refers to intentional or unintentional physical, mental or sexual harm done to a child. It is much more likely to take place in homes in which other forms of domestic violence occur as well. The treatment of child abuse in law has its origins in Anglo-American common law. Common law tradition held that the male was head of the household and possessed the authority to act as both disciplinarian and protector of those dependent on him. In the nineteenth century the forces of industrialization and urbanization loosened the community ties that had traditionally served as important regulators of child abuse and neglection.

‘Trauma’ is Greek for ‘wound’ and a term in medicine for massive physical injury. Psychological ‘trauma’ is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as ‘an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others’. Trauma essentially involves emotional, distortion of identity and dissociation of sensibility. When child abuse emerges, many authors focus child abuse as their theme of works. They want to reveal the struggles of children to the society and to create awareness form people. So they talk about child abuse in their works such Genres in African American Literature can be regarded as a productive site where trauma finds expression through the text. Frantz Fanon was the first to propose a linkage between individual Psychosis and oppression innate in a colony system. Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks is one of the earliest instances of a comprehensive study of social trauma under colonial conditions. His extensive analysis of individual case studies offered corroborating evidence for the claim that the colony culture induced psychosis and demanded a reengagement with a reality more amenable to the colonial system.

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION -- 1-15

CHAPTER II
CHILD ABUSE IN TONI MORRISON’S GOD HELP THE CHILD AND THE BLUEST EYE -- 16-28

CHAPTER III
TREATMENT OF COLOURISM IN TONI MORRISON’S
GOD HELP THE CHILD AND THE BLUEST EYE -- 29-41

CHAPTER IV
SUMMATION -- 42-50

BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 50-51

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R. Muthuselvi, M.A., M.Phil.
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