Drawing on Harold Bloom’s concept of factility or the unavoidable influence texts that run through cultural legacy African diaspora, this article examines intertextual relationship between Morrison’s Beloved and Ward’s Salvage Bones Sing, Unburied, Sing. In Bones, Ward engages with to retell myth Medea rethink black motherhood keep interrogating questions self-definition sense community aiming ...

This paper focuses on and compares several aspects of the novels The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Color Purple Alice Walker. analysis is preceded a brief historical background times when action take place, necessary to understand history racial discrimination prejudices that sustain this our days. discursion shows main female characters reacting towards different forms oppression systematic supp...

Tarih boyunca İngilizcede siyah Amerikalıları adlandırmak için, tenlerine ve etnik kökenlerine gönderme yapan, “Negro,” “nigger,” “niggah, ” “black,” “African-American” “Afro-American” gibi farklı sıfatlar kullanılmıştır. Bunların bazıları yan-anlamsal çağrışımlar bakımından nötr olup ise aşağılayıcı anlamlar barındırmaktadır. Kendisi de bir Afro-Amerikalı yazar olan Toni Morrison da romanların...