Politics OF Fear, Equality and Quest of Equal National Labyrinth in Toni Morrison’s Fiction:
Thesis statement:
Toni Morrison’s fiction probe the quest of ideals of equality misshaped by the dominant "Whiteness" and aspires for ideals like social equality and independent home once distorted by their white masters in U.S. culture that ultimately negated the blacks as beings having life and soul dwelling their identity based upon fear of extinction and slavery.
Introduction:
Toni Morrison in her fictional writings calls for an examination of presentation of blacks in canonical U.S. literature. She asks in her stories the structured implications and dominance of "literary whiteness". She also interrogates how this literary whiteness …show more content…
As mentioned earlier, Toni Morrison as a torch bearer of blacks in America highlights the pervasive silence that surrounds race in nineteenth-century canonical literature. Observing the ways in which the “Africanist” African-American presence pervades this literature, Morrison has called for an investigation of the ways in which whiteness operates in American canonical literature. For Hook, Morrison through her female black characters actually focuses on the pervasive power of love and self care to raise a feminism that would address the pain that is invested in psychology of black women and love is the only antidote that can heal through words, heal through strategies (33). Morrison as representative of black American woman raises question about the imposition of alien values and ideologies possessing the reflections of oppressions, the insanities, the loyalties and triumphs of black women’s lives while living in a society that is already racially segregated. She is a womanist in this regard possessed with nationalistic subjective approach celebrating in her books Afro-American womanhood with the acknowledgement what non black racial structures and beliefs system have impacts on their lives. She is openly an agenda writer who intentionally writes to expose racial, sexual and class suppression by encountering the effects of their intersectionality and its discursive effects on black women as mass as well as individual. She asserts on transformation of silence into a yelling speech and encounters a challenge to give back power to the disenfranchised. As a propagandist of the black women, she is well aware of sexual politics and
Thesis statement:
Toni Morrison’s fiction probe the quest of ideals of equality misshaped by the dominant "Whiteness" and aspires for ideals like social equality and independent home once distorted by their white masters in U.S. culture that ultimately negated the blacks as beings having life and soul dwelling their identity based upon fear of extinction and slavery.
Introduction:
Toni Morrison in her fictional writings calls for an examination of presentation of blacks in canonical U.S. literature. She asks in her stories the structured implications and dominance of "literary whiteness". She also interrogates how this literary whiteness …show more content…
As mentioned earlier, Toni Morrison as a torch bearer of blacks in America highlights the pervasive silence that surrounds race in nineteenth-century canonical literature. Observing the ways in which the “Africanist” African-American presence pervades this literature, Morrison has called for an investigation of the ways in which whiteness operates in American canonical literature. For Hook, Morrison through her female black characters actually focuses on the pervasive power of love and self care to raise a feminism that would address the pain that is invested in psychology of black women and love is the only antidote that can heal through words, heal through strategies (33). Morrison as representative of black American woman raises question about the imposition of alien values and ideologies possessing the reflections of oppressions, the insanities, the loyalties and triumphs of black women’s lives while living in a society that is already racially segregated. She is a womanist in this regard possessed with nationalistic subjective approach celebrating in her books Afro-American womanhood with the acknowledgement what non black racial structures and beliefs system have impacts on their lives. She is openly an agenda writer who intentionally writes to expose racial, sexual and class suppression by encountering the effects of their intersectionality and its discursive effects on black women as mass as well as individual. She asserts on transformation of silence into a yelling speech and encounters a challenge to give back power to the disenfranchised. As a propagandist of the black women, she is well aware of sexual politics and