Toni Morrison’s Analysis Of The Importance Of The Afro-American Presence In American Literature

The name of Toni Morrison belongs to the genre of African American literature. She is the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. She can be regarded as a voice of marginalized. Her famous novels include The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Beloved. Toni Morrison delivered a lecture at the University of Michigan on October 7, 1988 and this got later published as an essay titled as “ Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature”. This paper is an attempt to go through this essay for the purpose of understanding of Toni Morrison’s analysis of the importance of the Afro-American Presence in American Literature.