FEMINISM AND BLACK NATIONALISM WITH REFERENCE OF TONI MORRISON'S NOVELS

Abstract

A woman with a pen becomes dangerous for the process of writing provides her with a better insight in to her own thoughts and feeling but also gives her the benefit of freedom and privacy which she could rarely enjoy. Although the first form of woman‟s writing was in the form of dairy, which recorded their daily lives or some important events, women gradually began to move away from the realms of mundance to the realms of fantasy and mythology. Many of them discovered poetry, which allowed them to express their deepest and most secretive desires and fears, but also to create worlds of their own, world in which they had more freedom and more power.

Each time a woman stands up for herself,
without knowing it possibly,
without claiming it,
she stands up for all women.”
                                                 By – Maya Angelou

Toni Morrison is one of the most popular African American author. Her literary and social ideology are often brought into connection with feminism and black nationalism. In her novels we observe that she addressed the complexities of race, gender discrimination and class through her female characters. The present paper tries to focus on feministic Approach in the novels of Toni Morrison. Morrison depicts her female characters adopts the path of survival and later enables her identity from any sort of conventional clutches where women is seen as an object for sexual pleaser or for doing monotonous house hold works of washing cloths or sweeping floors. Morrison express how female suffer and she gives glimpses that women are also a human.