Toni Morrison's Art. A Humanistic Exploration of The Bluest Eye and Beloved

ISBN-13: 9783960671183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 100 str.

Sumedha Bhandari

Opis

Toni Morrison, the eighth American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, is perhaps the most formally sophisticated novelist in the history of African-American literature. Astutely, she describes aspects of human lives and, unlike many other writers, reveals the hope and beauty that underlines the worlds ugliness. Her artistic excellence lies in achieving a perfect balance between black literature and writing abouth the universally truth. Although firmly grounded in the cultural heritage and social concerns of black Americans, her work transcends narrowly prescribed conceptions of ethnic literature, exhibiting universal mythical patterns and overtones. Her novels, thus, mourn on universal concerns.The endeavor in this study is to scrutinize the unspoken lexis of Toni Morrison's works and to unveil the layers of humanistic concerns that provide denotations to her words. Earlier studies on this writer have concentrated on adjudging her as a writer addressing problems of black people. However, this book tries to extend this notion to encompass the problems of whole human community by assimilating blacks in the general drama of life. Before dyeing the strings of Morrison's novels with the colour of humanist concerns, this book delineates the term 'Humanism' from which these humanistic concerns arise.

O autorze

Sumedha Bhandari is working as an Assistant Professor of English at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. She has teaching experience of more than 10 years and research experience of more than 15 years. Punjab Agricultural University is a premier agricultural university, working toward the dissemination of scientific knowledge to farmers of India. The PAU has played a key role in increasing the food grain production in the Punjab State and, thus, ushering in an era of Green Revolution in India.