TIMELESS PEOPLE IN AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURE: THE FEMALE ANCESTOR IN MAYA ANGELOU AND TONI MORRISON

Revista Letras ◽

10.5380/rel.v47i0.19025 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

Author(s):

Mail Marques de Azevedo

Keyword(s):

Toni Morrison ◽

American Culture ◽

Maya Angelou

Por meio de paralelos entre o tratamento da ancestral feminina - elemento-chave na preservação e transmissão da cultura negra tradicional - na autobiografia de Maya Angelou, I know why the caged bird sings e no romance Sula, de Toni Morrison, este trabalho observa como Morrison subverte estereótipos e convenções literárias a fim de estabelecer liâmes com as raízes ancestrais da cultura afro-americana, numa tentativa de preservar tradições ameaçadas.

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Portrayal of Free Spirit in Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger and Alice Walker’s Meridian

HARIDRA ◽

10.54903/haridra.v1i01.7808 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (01) ◽

pp. 42-44

Author(s):

Sharda Singh

Keyword(s):

Women Writers ◽

Toni Morrison ◽

Women's Movement ◽

Alice Walker ◽

Male Dominance ◽

Adrienne Rich ◽

Maya Angelou ◽

Female Protagonists ◽

Active Involvement ◽

Free Spirit

The works of women writers of USA have become increasingly visible in the academy especially since 1970s because of their active involvement in contemporary women’s movement. Writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker and poets like Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich and others have been strongly greeted for their ideologies. Undoubtedly, their works echo strong resistance against racism, patriarchism and militarism. The present paper highlights the remedy of the various maladies like male dominance, subordinated identity and submissive life. It is said that ‘every action has reaction’ and these writers believe that ‘”FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE”. So they have depicted the undaunted spirits among their female protagonists who fought bravely against the odds and eventually emerged victorious.

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Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture by Tessa Roynon

MFS Modern Fiction Studies ◽

10.1353/mfs.2016.0049 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 562-565

Author(s):

Patrice Rankine

Keyword(s):

Classical Tradition ◽

Toni Morrison ◽

American Culture

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Tessa Roynon, Toni Morrison & the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture

International Journal of the Classical Tradition ◽

10.1007/s12138-016-0418-2 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 190-200

Author(s):

Denise Eileen McCoskey

Keyword(s):

Classical Tradition ◽

Toni Morrison ◽

American Culture

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Ghosts of Liberalism: Morrison's Beloved and the Moynihan Report

PMLA ◽

10.2307/463165 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 111 (3) ◽

pp. 408-420 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

James Berger

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Toni Morrison ◽

American Politics ◽

American Culture ◽

New Left ◽

Institutional Racism ◽

The Novel ◽

African American Culture ◽

Moynihan Report ◽

Liberal Position

In focusing the novel Beloved on Sethe's forced infanticide, Toni Morrison places social and familial trauma at the center of American discourses on race. This emphasis opposes two forms of the denial of trauma that have characterized American politics since the late 1960s—neoconservative denial of the continuing effects of institutional racism and the New Left and black-nationalist denial of violence within African American communities. Beloved invokes an essentially liberal position of the sort that culminated and largely ended in the Moynihan report of 1965. But Morrison corrects the errors of this form of liberalism by insisting on the agency and autonomy of African American culture and on the positive roles of women.

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