Recitatif Toni Morrison Analysis

the author Toni Morrison was Born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor and professor. “The Bluest Eye (1970),” “Song of Solomon (1877),” and “Jazz (1992)” are all great writings of the author Toni Morrison. The writing of Toni Morrison that I want to focus on is one from the book that we are currently reading which is called “Recitatif.” While explaining this writing I will also give information about the issues of race or cultural assimilation are thematically stressed in the late-century minority writers such as Toni Morison. In the writing “Recitatif” you have two young girls’ whose names are Twyla and Roberta. Twyla and Roberta first meet within the confines of a state home for children, St. Bonny's (named after St. Bonaventure), because each one has been taken away from her mother. …show more content…
With this being said it makes you wonder about the current issues issues that the writer is trying to address at this current time. “Recitatif” was first published by Toni Morrison in 1983. We know that during this time the civil rights movement had come to an end. Twyla and Roberta of Morison’s “Recitatif” makes it had to truly understand what race the two girls are due to the circumstances that the each of them go through in there lives and what happens every time they see each other again. Toni Morrison writes “"Roberta must have thought I meant that my mother would be mad about my being put in the shelter. Not about rooming with her, because as soon as Bozo left she came over to me and said, "Is your mother sick too?" "No," I said. "She just likes to dance all