RACE, SLAVERY AND SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITER - TONI MORRISON

N.Velvizhi; Dr. G.Ruby Davaseeli

Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2018

RACE, SLAVERY AND SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITER - TONI MORRISON

N. Velvizhi, Dr. G. Ruby Davaseeli

Abstract :

Racial protest was the dominant impulse of the black women novelist who wrote during the thirties and the early forties. Toni Morrison, a path–eaking Afro–American creative artist, the voice of downtrodden black women, a woman of many talents, comes from a long line of hard working, industries black people who actively fought racial oppression and inferior social and economic status. Her novels Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby voice the problems of racial, slavery and sexual abuse in Afro –American society from different angles.

The present study analyses the selected novels of author Toni Morrison, who rose to eminence by means of their creative output as novelist, the most productive black women writer in the United States of America. Black women writers have reacted differently to the issues related to basic personal relationship, love marriage and man women relationship after their emancipation. Her writings engage a wide variety of readers in compelling themes that turns around community, racial discrepancy, sexual harassment, love, equality, incest etc. She does not take issues and themes from all over the world, but she writes on the crucial issues of her people and has universalized them. Morrison insists to re–write the history, re– assess the culture and erase the stereotypes of racism, sexism and Slavery. The main focuses of her works are universality, re–search, re–reading and re–writes of Afro–American history.