The universality of their women: Morrison, Walker, and Naylor

The works of three contemporary Black American women novelists hold a great deal of insight into not just black women and their roles, but also into women and their roles in general. Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor create black women who want to break from the stereotypes societal attitudes have placed them in. But through their struggles to become accepted as human beings who happen to be women, all women learn that they, too, can break from the bonds they find themselves confined in. Recognition of the problem, acceptance of the problem, and willingness to change the problem are the three necessary steps for all women--black, white, red, or yellow--in breaking the stereotyped roles they find themselves in.