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Pupation The Growth Subject In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye And Beloved

Posted on:2007-06-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185482111Subject:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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As the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature as well as a famous African-American female writer, Toni Morrison deserves the honor of the most brilliant star in the black literature. With her unique insight into the black's history and actuality, she deeply explores the trauma of slavery and the horrors of racist oppression and black-on-black violence. Also, Morrison always focuses her attention on black young people's growing experiences under the impact of white racist practices. For her, the growth of black young people is of great significance, for the youth is the future of a nation. As a result, many of her novels can be classified as Bildungsroman, that is, the coming-of-age novel.As a literary genre, Bildungsroman originated firstly in Germany and was soon accepted and developed by litterateurs all over the world. In American literature, especially in its minority literature, Bildungsroman has its particular features, for the growth of minority young people seems full of frustration to some extent comparing with other's. In The Bluest Eye and Beloved, Morrison tells us the stories of two black girls, and by describing their different growing experiences, she discloses the destructive impact of the internalized racism and explores the way about how the black nation can develop itself. Analyzing these two novels as...
Keywords/Search Tags:Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Bildungsroman, Self-identity
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