THEMATIC CONCERNS IN THE NOVELS OF TONI MORRISON
Keywords:
violence, oppression, community, cultureAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to study the thematic concerns in the novels of Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye, Sula, The Song of Solomon, Tar Baby and Beloved. Morrison has dealt with the themes of violence, oppression and sacrifice in all her novels. The conflict between the black and the white communities, the victimization of the blacks by the dominant whites, the violence and bloodshed within the black communities have been presented nowhere so effectively in the entire American fiction. Though all her works are suffused with violence, Morrison has dealt with violence in each novel in a unique way.
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