AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

Role and significance of black community in Toni Morrison's fiction

by Jyoti Deswal




Institution: Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibarewala University
Department:
Year: 2009
Keywords: Black community; Toni Morrison; Fictions
Record ID: 1204956
Full text PDF: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/4126


Abstract

Toni Morrison (1931- ), a Nobel laureate, has attained a central place in the American literary world. Her award-winning novels chronicle the lives of Afro-Americans and explore the impact of socio-historic forces pitted against them. Using precise, richly textured prose and compelling characters, Morrison deftly examines the role of family in her novels. In a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies dedicated to Morrison, guest editor Nancy J. Peterson makes the unarguable claim that and#8213;Morrison has become the American and African (woman) writer to reckon withand#8214; (464). Truider Harris rightly remarks that Morrison has entered literary superstardom: and#8213;By any standard of literary evaluation, Toni Morrison is a phenomenon in the classic sense of an once-in-alifetime rarityand#8214; (9). It is only justifiable then that her works have evoked wide and divergent critical responses. A broad overview of Morrison scriticism would reveal the nature and scope of various approaches to her work.%%%References p. 191-202