Abstract or Introduction
African-American novelist Toni Morrison is a writer deeply concerned with the issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her novels inquire into the condition of people who have been subjected to different types of oppression. All her novels deal with the condition of the oppressed. My investigation will therefore focus upon how Morrison uses narrative technique to show oppression of black people by people of their own community. My paper will examine the discrimination of blacks by blacks as represented in the following novels; The Bluest Eye (1970) Song of Solomon (1977) and Tar Baby (1981). In these novels, Toni Morrison portrays the black community with reference to the travails faced by black people because of their blackness as well as the attitudinal class differences and social distinctions within the community. Her novels deal not so much with the homogeneity of shared suffering within the black community but with various orders of differences between the black themselves. [...]
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- Pankaj Kumar (Author), 2013, A House Divided. Representation of Conflict Between Black and Black in Toni Morrison’s Novels, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/286927
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