The Impact of Slavery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: From the Communal to the Individual

  • S.M Baggio Department of English (Aided) Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, India
  • Dr. P Chitra Assistant Professor of English, Department of English Aided) Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, India
Keywords: Morrison, Slavery, Consciousness, Trauma, Dehumanization

Abstract

Slavery is a state of extraordinary physical, scholarly, passionate, and otherworldly hardship, a sort of terrible life. This paper targets investigating how the way of life of white bigotry endorsed official frameworks of separation as well as a perplexing code of discourse, conduct, and social practices intended to make racial domination genuine as well as normal and inescapable. In her magnum opus, Beloved (1987), Toni Morrison depicts the dehumanizing impacts of subjection on the past and memory of her courageous woman. Morrison has committed her scholarly profession to guaranteeing that dark experience under, and because of, subjection would not be left to understandings exclusively at the directs of whites. This investigation shows how Toni Morrison has prevailing with regards to uncovering the physical and mental harm perpetrated on African American individuals by the ruthless brutality that comprised American subjugation. The paper, in this specific circumstance, researches how the memory and the past of the courageous woman go about as destroyers of her protective presence.

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2020-12-22
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Baggio, S., & Chitra, D. P. (2020). The Impact of Slavery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: From the Communal to the Individual. Shanlax International Journal of English, 9(S1-i2-Dec), 5–7. https://doi.org/10.34293/english.v9iS1-i2-Dec.3679
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