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Toni Morrison's Beloved: The voice of Black Trauma

Sejal Patel

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Toni Morrison is one of the leading writers of African American literature. Her novels deal with the oppression of Black people in America. By her works she tries to give new identity to the Black people. She chooses to remember the past of slavery, racism, violence against Blacks, their exploitation and their struggle to achieve their civil rights in America. Racism and slavery is not used by Morrison as narrowly exclusive; they are committed to survival and wholeness of entire Black people and marginal people at large. In her works, she shows the condition of Black people and convincing her readers about the deprivation and injustice of the Black people.

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Toni Morrison is one of the leading writers of African American literature. Her novels deal with the oppression of Black people in America. By her works she tries to give new identity to the Black people. She chooses to remember the past of slavery, racism, violence against Blacks, their exploitation and their struggle to achieve their civil rights in America. Racism and slavery is not used by Morrison as narrowly exclusive; they are committed to survival and wholeness of entire Black people and marginal people at large. In her works, she shows the condition of Black people and convincing her readers about the deprivation and injustice of the Black people.

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Toni Morrison is one of the leading writers of African American literature. Her novels deal with the oppression of Black people in America. By her works she tries to give new identity to the Black people. She chooses to remember the past of slavery, racism, violence against Blacks, their exploitation and their struggle to achieve their civil rights in America. Racism and slavery is not used by Morrison as narrowly exclusive; they are committed to survival and wholeness of entire Black people and marginal people at large. In her works, she shows the condition of Black people and convincing her readers about the deprivation and injustice of the Black people.

Key concepts: Racism, Oppression, Injustice, Identity (music), Gender studies, Sociology, Black women, Civil rights

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