African Cultural Heritage In Song Of Solomon And Beloved

Toni Morrison ranks among the most well known black women writers in the world. Song of Solomon and Beloved are her two most prestigious novels. This thesis is an interpretation of these two novels with the focus on the African cultural heritage. Specifically, three main conventions from the African cultural heritage are illustrated, and each of them plays an irreplaceable part in the Afro-Americans'life. The oral tradition records history and comforts the black souls through folk music and storytelling; the communal collective culture surrounds the community members with love, care, understanding, support and security; and the ancestral presence guides the living African descendents in the diaspora from the afterworld. Through her writing, Morrison takes efforts to protect these invaluable heritages from extinction and highlights the importance of their sustainment for the survival and development of the whole black race.