Research Paper On Toni Morrison

War, Racism, and hard work, this was the way of life for most Americans in the 1900’s. Most African Americans were frowned upon and ridiculed, this was the type of world Toni Morrison was raised and lived in. An immense fact of Toni Morrison’s life is that she grew up during a time of extreme racism and civil rights movements for blacks. Being African American herself, Toni, experienced a lot of this action. A lot of her writing was mostly impacted by this time in history. Toni Morrison, is closely tied to the Postmodernist Era, but some of her works show a little piece of the Modernism Era due to her being raised during that time period. The Postmodernist Era started in the mid 1900’s and is still active to this day. Postmodernists believe that the world is in a state of perpetual incompleteness, permanently unresolved, and promoted the notion of radical pluralism. Toni’s childhood, her love for reading and writing, along with her upbringing in the Modernism and Postmodernism Eras, coupled with World War 2 and The Vietnam War, made Toni into one of the best writers of the 1900’s and today. Toni Morrison Graduated from Cornell university, New York with her Masters in English. She began teaching English, as a professor, at Texas Southern University, Houston. This …show more content…
Byatt. In this criticism Byatt reviews Morrison’s book and gives new readers an insight to the time of which the book is written. He starts his criticism in a positive way, letting the readers know that, “this novel gave me nightmares and yet I sat up late, paradoxically smiling to myself with intense pleasure at the exact beauty of singing prose.” (Byatt). This book, is in fact, an emotional roller coaster on many levels, however can leave the reader smiling. The most intriguing part of all is this book keeps the reader thinking. Morrison supports Byatt’s opinion by the following quotes in her