LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 22:10 October 2022
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The Problem of Slavery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Amakcham Opendro Meitei

In her 79th year, Toni Morrison is today, one of the greatest living literary icons of the contemporary world. As an African American, she has been able to achieve the status of distinction in the mainstream American literary tradition. In her works, Morrison deals with major contemporary social issues like racism, class exploitation and sexism. Toni Morrison offers a fresh perspective on black life, their history and genealogy. The socio-history found in her novels is the history of daily assault by a world, which denies minimum dignity to the blacks. The overriding theme of her novel is, therefore, the sense of identity of a black person trying to recover his/her history and culture, which had so far been suppressed due to white narcissism.

As an author and an educator, Morrison sought to move the works of African Americans from the periphery to the centre, in American culture, through her works. With nine powerful novels, an astounding critical work and a number of essays, Morrison deals with the efforts of African Americans to survive cultural, economic and social disruption within their communities. Her settings are specific American historical period, while her characters are usually black and female, though not always. Morrison’s writings are embedded in her desire to ‘bear witness’ to the enslavement of African Americans as crucial American cultural fact.

The socio-political and literary history of African Americans is discussed in this novel. The three hundred years of slavery and racism has denied blacks of their history, tradition and culture, in the process eliminating their identity and their self. Slavery is the central fact of black history in America which contributed enormously to the economic growth and the creation of wealth in colonial and nineteenth century America.

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Amakcham Opendro Meitei
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Department of English
Shree Shree Gourgobind Girls' College
Khurai Sajor Leikai
Imphal East -795010 Manipur
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