Download or read book Exploited and Explored Feminine Self A Study of the Select Novels of Toni Morrison and Shobha De written by Dr. B. PREETHA M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., and published by Archers & Elevators Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of the Female Experience in the Novels of Toni Morrison written by Shirley Marie Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Psychosomatic Predicament in Select Novels of Toni Morrison written by Paleru Anantha Lakshmi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toni Morrison written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison’s intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on Morrison’s major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrison’s aesthetic and political visions.
Download or read book Contested Boundaries written by Maxine L. Montgomery and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contested Boundaries aims to map the space between A Mercy, Toni Morrison’s ninth and arguably most enigmatic novel, and the fiction comprising the author’s multiple-text canon. The volume accomplishes this through the inclusion of eight original essays representing a range of critical approaches that trouble narrative boundaries demarcating the novels included in Morrison’s evolving opus, with A Mercy serving as a locus for discussion of her re-figuration of concerns central to her narrative project. Issues relevant to the conflicted mother-child relationship, the haunting legacy of slavery, the black female body as a site of trauma, the thorny quest for an idealized home, the perilous transatlantic journey, the demands associated with love, and, yes, the desire for mercy recur, but they do so with a difference, a “Morrisonian” twist that demands close intellectual scrutiny. Essays included in this volume are invested in a persistent scholarly investigation of this narrative and rhetorical play. The publication of A Mercy represents a climactic moment in Morrison’s evolving political consciousness, her fictional geography, and, consequently, a shift in the margins marking her multiple-text universe. The complicated markers of difference figuring in “Recitatif” and continuing with Paradise and Love culminate in the author’s ninth work of fiction. This volume ventures to chart that change, not for the sake of encoding it, but in an effort to open up new ways of interrogating her writing.
Download or read book The Novels of Toni Morrison written by K. Sumana and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indepth Study Of The Interrelationship Of Race, Gender And Class In Six Of Her Novels. Reveals Her As A Fictional Artist-Combining Political Consciousness With Aesthetic Sensibility.
Download or read book Toni Morrison A Thematic Study written by Vipin Pratap Singh and published by Horizon Books ( A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd). This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research looks on Toni Morrison's usage of several narrative voices in her novel Home. Its goal is to reveal the impact and purpose of this novel's employment of such a narrative method. The use of a variety of narrative tactics and horrific events creates a horror universe that represents the African American community's sorrow and struggle. The current study examines how racism and patriarchy shaped the growth and creation of black female identity in Toni Morrison's books The Bluest Eye and Sula. Morrison's books depict how racial and gender prejudices influence the black female's struggle for individual identity and selfhood. These works mostly use horror as a tactic for exploring the traumatic history of black life. The study's goal is to investigate the function and relevance of terror, as well as the associated narrative techniques of disruption and disconnectedness, in revealing the repercussions of social exclusion in the texts. It is based on the premise that horror offers a different perspective on African American culture. The most disheartening part of human development and civilisation is that some of us are unable to embrace others as fellow humans. Human civilization is always divided by class, colour, and culture. Rather of embracing our differences and using them to our advantage, we fight to stifle and destroy others. Negroids were loathed by Caucasians, and the Mongoloids were continually at odds with Caucasians. We had lost our feeling of belonging. The chasm between wealthy and poor, between blacks and whites, and between man and woman is evident. Some unseen hand is constantly rolling the dice in the name of this class, race, and gender. Since the dawn of human civilization, human society has been basically split into classes.
Download or read book Toni Morrison s Beloved as a Herstory written by Marria Qibtia Sikandar Nagra and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, , language: English, abstract: A herstory, contrary to a his-story, is basically history written from a feminist perspective, encompassing and highlighting the truths generally suppressed by male authors or writers. Janet Frame and Sarah Dunant stand as the prime pioneers of this school of narrative fiction and non-fiction. Apprehending the fact that women in literature are generally represented, instead of being in a position to represent themselves, the novel Beloved by Morrison stands as a herstory, and also fits in the criteria of what eminent feminist Helene Cixous in her article, “Laugh of Medusa” labels as an Ecriture Feminine(880) since she too rightfully believed in the essential need for women to place “themselves into the text” and therefore “into history” (879). Analyzing Morrison’s novel Beloved in this context manifests her aspirations towards not only highlighting the harrowing experience of black slaves in America, but also sheds light upon the gendered American society, where female deviation from social norms was not only deemed a threat to patriarchy but was also an aberration, worth condemnation
Download or read book Toni Morrison written by L. Wagner-Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison — fiction, non-fiction, and other — drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty years.
Download or read book Critical Companion to Toni Morrison written by Carmen Gillespie and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is perhaps the most important living American author. This work examines Morrison's life and writing, featuring critical analyses of her work and themes, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences.
Download or read book Self destructive Women in Toni Morrison s Novels written by Wendy E. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of Sula by Toni Morrison written by Joie Meier and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 100, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, course: African American Literary Theory, language: English, abstract: Toni Morrison’s Sula is an extremely complex work of fiction that some argue functions as parable, satire, or Black-feminist writing. However, the complexity of the tale of Sula and Nel’s lives requires analysis including all of these elements. Morrison skillfully blends together gender roles with the binary opposition as she includes Biblical allusions to give clues to the characters’ personalities and future actions as they struggle against their community. It becomes clear to the reader through the characters’ actions and thoughts, that the world, which the Bottom created for itself, is inherently contradictory as the citizens of the community struggle to maintain binary thinking. Sula and Shadrack represent the evil (or at least unacceptable) in the traditional good/evil binary that the Bottom’s community upholds. Both Sula and Shadrack face ostracization because of the negativity that is attached to them. Shadrack, however, chooses to live within the acceptable boundaries of the community with his celebration of Suicide Day. The community sees his celebration as bizarre, but in no way a threat to their existence as the years pass (Morrison 15).
Download or read book Motherhood Home and Identity in Selected Novels of Toni Morrison written by Saman Omar and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chloe Anthony Wofford, known as Toni Morrison (1931-) is one of the well-known contemporary African American novelists. Her writings are centered on African American themes. The reader of her novels is constantly in the presence of pessimism. This is due to the turmoil the African Americans always experienced throughout American history, particularly because of slavery and racial segregation. In these respects, she writes about the individual as well as the community. Moreover, the Nobel Prize in literature she won in 1993 attests to the richness she displays in her treatment of the different circumstantial and universal themes, and for the unconventional techniques she adopts.
Download or read book Journeys in Search of Self written by Chia-li Kang and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mother Daughter Relationsship in Toni Morrison s Beloved written by Kathleen Niebl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-07-20 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institute for Anglistics/American Studies), course: HpS: Landmarks of 20th Century African American Novel Writing, language: English, abstract: In the course of the twentieth century, the perception of motherhood, both as a cultural concept and a literary theme, has been subjected to considerable changes. Due particularly to psychoanalytical discoveries emphasising the formative influence of early childhood upon the mental growth and health of the individual, the nineteenth-century notion of motherhood as solely based on devotion, self-sacrifice and restriction to the domestic sphere was further strengthened during the first half of the twentieth century (Würzbach 370-374). What was for a long time assumed the natural and consequently most satisfying task for a woman, has increasingly been called into question under the influence of the feminist movement after 1968. Influential and frequently quoted studies like Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born (1977) or Marianne Hirsch’s The Mother/Daughter Plot (1989) reveal how the perception of motherhood, commonly interpreted as a mere cultural reality construct, has been shaped and altered in accordance with the changing needs of a patriarchal society, and its questionable ideas of economic progress and sociological as well as cultural advancement (Krimphove 11-68). Although these theories have proven substantial and inspiring for not only female authors, the universal validity of the assumptions made by these predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon feminists has been challenged by women belonging to ethnic minorities. Accompanied by the questioning of the premises and possibilities of the literary canon, doubts also arouse whether the specific experiences and the unarguably incomparable historical backgrounds of previously marginalized groups of women are compatible to eurocentric “white” feminist theories, especially those that deal with psychoanalytical concerns (Krimphove 11-68).
Download or read book Toni Morrison written by Linden Peach and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing Morrison's career over nearly thirty years, from The Bluest Eye to Paradise, this updated study suggests that as her work has become more concerned with particular episodes or events in black history, it has also become more involved with the complexities of historiography and with the historical perspectives underpinning a wider range of verbal narratives."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Celebrating the Senses written by Katharina Gutmann and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
