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Toni Morrison as an Existential NovelistOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The present study deals with the existentialist ideology in Toni Morrison’s fiction. The aim of this study is to trace Acceptance and Rejection as Means of Self-assertion in Toni Morrison’s novels namely: The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved. The concept of self-assertion in these three novels varies from one book to another. It represents the concern to probe the inner psyche of the three protagonists in the selected novels from an African American perspective.
In the African American context, people struggle to achieve wholeness and fulfillment. They have either to conform to those norms that are prevailing their societies or to reject such norms and to have a set of values of their own. In both cases they have to struggle to achieve personal existence. In the selected novels the main characters try to assert their individuality each on her own way.
This oscillation between acceptance and rejection emphasizes the individual effort of each of these characters to find the moment of individuality to assert the much desired individual freedom and the struggle to liberate themselves from the limitations imposed by the different codes that govern their societies. In their endeavors to assert their own existence, each of these characters sticks to their own values and principles accepting or rejecting those values and norms that govern their communities.
The analysis of the three texts involve a lot of serious inquiries into the nature of acceptance and rejection as a complicated pattern of self-assertion.