An Overview on Major Novels of Toni Morrison | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

This paper aims at examining the conceptual analysis in Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1974), Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), Paradise (1997) novels. In all her novels, Toni Morrison has addressed the themes of gender identity, race tension, sexism and desire for pleasure, violence, oppression and sacrifice. Slavery has become an unfortunate question of the past and still haunts the present, the theme of gender identity in African American culture. In this culture, two main reasons for suppression are Black and a woman. Women strive as human beings to assert their identity. Whites or anyone could not give up racist or gender rights. In the American fiction, the conflict between the black and the white communities, the victimization of the blacks by the dominant whites, and violence and bloodshed in the black communities have been so well presented. Though all her works are suffused with violence, Morrison has dealt with violence in each novel in a unique way.