Abstract
The present study attempts to analyses selected works of the two eminent American authors on whom very little research work seems to have been undertaken through the angle of Black aesthetics. Richard Wright and Toni Morrison novelists are an effort to bring out the central theme of the Black American experience in an unjust society like America. Compare and contrast the ways that these two American writers have conceived the relationship between racial oppression (black) and the institution of the family (society) in their respective works of Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Bluest eye (1970), and Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940), Black boy (1945). The novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison has tried to redefine beauty and the identity …show more content…
Toni Morrison agreed in on the point that art should be political and more than other writers of the movement she went so far as to demonstrate this issue. Toni Morrison has characterized the experience of White racism as trauma and psychosis — the latter term referring actually to an unsolved conflict. This conflict is at two levels: one being between self and the other who is an oppressive character and the other being a conflict of external interactive force and internal psychological force. Toni Morrison’s novels have described the conflict or trauma of the African Americans as “fragmentation” — which, as has been mentioned before, manifests in her narrations. The present study is as in-depth a study as possible of social analysis of the condition of the Blacks in America and their direct confrontation with prejudices, stereotypes, and racial mythologies that allowed the Whites to ignore worse social conditions created by them for the Blacks till the last decades of the 19th century. Altogether the African American literature has evolved from the slave narratives of its early time to include the modern novel. In this research work, the growth and development of the Black aesthetic from the work of Toni Morrison novels Beloved, Bluest and Richard Wright’s Native Son, Black boy has been studied. Although Richard Wright, whose …show more content…
Morrison started writing the novel in the mid of 1960s, but the idea was lodged twenty years earlier when one of her classmates revealed a sorrowful secret that she had been praying to God for two years to give her blue eyes but receiving no answer. Morrison wrote this novel when the “Black is beautiful” slogan of movement was at the peak. She started to think why such movement was needed, “why although reviled by others, could this beauty not be taken for granted within the community? Why did it need wide public articulation?” (Anderson Claud,
The present study attempts to analyses selected works of the two eminent American authors on whom very little research work seems to have been undertaken through the angle of Black aesthetics. Richard Wright and Toni Morrison novelists are an effort to bring out the central theme of the Black American experience in an unjust society like America. Compare and contrast the ways that these two American writers have conceived the relationship between racial oppression (black) and the institution of the family (society) in their respective works of Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Bluest eye (1970), and Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940), Black boy (1945). The novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison has tried to redefine beauty and the identity …show more content…
Toni Morrison agreed in on the point that art should be political and more than other writers of the movement she went so far as to demonstrate this issue. Toni Morrison has characterized the experience of White racism as trauma and psychosis — the latter term referring actually to an unsolved conflict. This conflict is at two levels: one being between self and the other who is an oppressive character and the other being a conflict of external interactive force and internal psychological force. Toni Morrison’s novels have described the conflict or trauma of the African Americans as “fragmentation” — which, as has been mentioned before, manifests in her narrations. The present study is as in-depth a study as possible of social analysis of the condition of the Blacks in America and their direct confrontation with prejudices, stereotypes, and racial mythologies that allowed the Whites to ignore worse social conditions created by them for the Blacks till the last decades of the 19th century. Altogether the African American literature has evolved from the slave narratives of its early time to include the modern novel. In this research work, the growth and development of the Black aesthetic from the work of Toni Morrison novels Beloved, Bluest and Richard Wright’s Native Son, Black boy has been studied. Although Richard Wright, whose …show more content…
Morrison started writing the novel in the mid of 1960s, but the idea was lodged twenty years earlier when one of her classmates revealed a sorrowful secret that she had been praying to God for two years to give her blue eyes but receiving no answer. Morrison wrote this novel when the “Black is beautiful” slogan of movement was at the peak. She started to think why such movement was needed, “why although reviled by others, could this beauty not be taken for granted within the community? Why did it need wide public articulation?” (Anderson Claud,