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Recent African American fiction Toni Morrison (1931- ) a US woman writer, the first African American to win a Nobel Prize (in 1993). She studied at Harvard University and has taught there as well as at Princeton and Yale Universities. Her novels are mostly about African-American life in the southern countryside. They include The Bluest Eye (1970), Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987), which won the Pulitzer Prize, Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1998).
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992)
African American literature would be true - preoccupied with African American history - slavery and its consequences
The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It is Morrison's first novel, written while Morrison was teaching at Howard University and was raising her two sons on her own.[1] The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl in Lorain, Ohio named Pecola. It takes place against the backdrop of America's Midwest as well as in the years following The Great Depression. The Bluest Eye is told from the perspective of Claudia MacTeer as a child and an adult, as well as from a third person omniscient viewpoint. Because of the controversial nature of the book, which deals with racism, incest, and child molestation, there have been numerous attempts to ban it from schools and libraries.[2] Narrator - Claudia MacTeer - tells the story of Pecola Breedlove Talks about consequences of slavery in America; being racist within racists community. Dreams of having blue eyes… children abuse her; the dream leaves Pecla to insanity
Very interesting picture of black community, unable, not syupportive and ready for action, community as invalid, unable to help and worry
Sula (1973)
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The Bottom is a mostly black community in Ohio, situated in the hills above the mostly white, wealthier community of Medallion. The Bottom first became a community when a master gave it to his former slave. This “gift” was in fact a trick: the master gave the former slave a poor stretch of hilly land, convincing the slave the land was worthwhile by claiming that because it was hilly, it was closer to heaven. The trick, though, led to the growth of a vibrant community. Now the community faces a new threat; wealthy whites have taken a liking to the land, and would like to destroy much of the town in order to build a golf course.
Shadrack, a resident of the Bottom, fought in World War I. He returns a shattered man, unable to accept the complexities of the world; he lives on the outskirts of town, attempting to create order in his life. One of his methods involves compartmentalizing his fear of death in a ritual he invents and names National Suicide Day. The town is at first wary of him and his ritual, then, over time, unthinkingly accepts him.
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Intimate contact between two communities
Failures of American democracy, the strength fatal flaws in the black community
The failure of patriarchy
Alice Walker (1944- ) a US writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple (1982). Her other works include the novel Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), a book about her early life, The Same River Twice (1996), and several…
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