A Critique on the Identity and Racial Discrimination in Toni Morrison Novels
Ms. Yamuna J.KirubaSharmila
Research Scholar Assistant Professor
Department of English Department of English
Vels University, Chennai – 600 117 Vels University,Chennai –600 117 yamuna.s076@gmail.com kiru.sharmi@gmail.com
Abstract
This paper attempts to focus on how the black people in America suffered for getting their identity and to overcome racial discrimination. Women all over the World are always suppressed based on caste and community. In the novels of Toni Morrison it can be seen clearly especiallyin Sula, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.It tells about the oppression of the black race and …show more content…
Toni Morrison was an editor, writer, playwright and literary critic. She has numerous awards for her works: Noble prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, National Book Critics Award, Arts and Letter Award for SongofSolomon. Four of her novels were chosen as Oprah Winfrey National Book Club. Morrison has also earned a plethora of book world accolades and honorary degrees also receiving the Presidential model of freedom in 2012. Her novels are known for epic themes exquisite language. Her novels reflect issues of racism, quest for identity, genderbias and sexualabuse, ambiguity of good and …show more content…
He promises to give bottom land to slave but later he declines and instead of giving fertile land near valley the bottom region of hill he gave them hilly unfertile land and says it is the bottom of sky and it was given. This shows how whites just for name sake acts as humanistic and shows their life because of racism .And the novel also tells about the character calledShadrack twenty two years old black world war I veteranwho suffers from the problems of hallucination when he is in hospital he is afraid of Male white nurse and he sees food given in a plate he compares the food in triangle is like boundaries the rice , the meat and beetroot were separated , which symbolizeswhite and black who have been separated by valley .
In Sula, Morrison explores the importance of female friendship in the formation of individual identity. It is the story of black woman ‘Sula’ Morrison portrays a contrast in characters to show uniqueness in Sula. Nel is quiet and Sula is aggressive. Sula acts on her own way to show herself unique and different among the community, showing oneself unique was a key to cause self-identity. Racial discrimination is seen in this novel, for instance, The incidents from the novel like when the conductor teases Nel’s mother Helene as a ‘bitch’ and
Ms. Yamuna J.KirubaSharmila
Research Scholar Assistant Professor
Department of English Department of English
Vels University, Chennai – 600 117 Vels University,Chennai –600 117 yamuna.s076@gmail.com kiru.sharmi@gmail.com
Abstract
This paper attempts to focus on how the black people in America suffered for getting their identity and to overcome racial discrimination. Women all over the World are always suppressed based on caste and community. In the novels of Toni Morrison it can be seen clearly especiallyin Sula, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.It tells about the oppression of the black race and …show more content…
Toni Morrison was an editor, writer, playwright and literary critic. She has numerous awards for her works: Noble prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, National Book Critics Award, Arts and Letter Award for SongofSolomon. Four of her novels were chosen as Oprah Winfrey National Book Club. Morrison has also earned a plethora of book world accolades and honorary degrees also receiving the Presidential model of freedom in 2012. Her novels are known for epic themes exquisite language. Her novels reflect issues of racism, quest for identity, genderbias and sexualabuse, ambiguity of good and …show more content…
He promises to give bottom land to slave but later he declines and instead of giving fertile land near valley the bottom region of hill he gave them hilly unfertile land and says it is the bottom of sky and it was given. This shows how whites just for name sake acts as humanistic and shows their life because of racism .And the novel also tells about the character calledShadrack twenty two years old black world war I veteranwho suffers from the problems of hallucination when he is in hospital he is afraid of Male white nurse and he sees food given in a plate he compares the food in triangle is like boundaries the rice , the meat and beetroot were separated , which symbolizeswhite and black who have been separated by valley .
In Sula, Morrison explores the importance of female friendship in the formation of individual identity. It is the story of black woman ‘Sula’ Morrison portrays a contrast in characters to show uniqueness in Sula. Nel is quiet and Sula is aggressive. Sula acts on her own way to show herself unique and different among the community, showing oneself unique was a key to cause self-identity. Racial discrimination is seen in this novel, for instance, The incidents from the novel like when the conductor teases Nel’s mother Helene as a ‘bitch’ and