A Comparative Analysis Of The Black Motherhood In Beloved And In The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison is one of the most outstanding black writers in American literature and the first black woman novelist to win the Nobel Prize. Her novels depict the miserable life of the black people, especially the life of black women as an inferior group, oppressed by both white people and black men. This thesis focuses on the black mothers and compares two mothers' different maternal loves in an attempt to discover how to affect their children. Meanwhile, the thesis discusses differences and similarities of black mothers from the cultural and historical perspectives. The study examines two aspects: resistance to hegemony of white culture under the oppression of slavery and alienation from native culture under the influence of cultural colonialism. Through the analysis, people have a good understanding about Toni Morrison's and other black writers' writings and keep the native history and native culture in mind. Toni Morrison calls for women to safeguard their native culture and to solidify community power for the restoration of the national consciousness.