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Violence and Rejection: The Hegemony of White Culture and Its Influence on the Mother–Daughter Relationship in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Published 2022-06-01“…However, the theme developed the interest of twentieth-century women’s literature, and the bond between a mother and her daughter marked its presence with the emergence of motherhood studies in the 1970s. Toni Morrison – one of the finest black female writers – in her debut novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), illustrates the complex bond between Pauline and Pecola Breedlove. …”
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Ethnicity and Social Critique in Tony Hilleman’s Crime Fiction
Published 2016-07-01“…American mystery writer Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) achieved wide readership both within the United States and abroad, and, significantly, within the US both among white Americans and Native Americans. …”
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The Quest for an Ideal Beauty in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Published 2019-02-01“…In The Bluest Eye (1970), the American-African writer, Toni Morrison explores how Western standards of ideal beauty are created and propagated with and among the black community. …”
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SITUATING THE SELF: OVERCOMING SUBJECTION AND SUBJECTIVITY IN TONI MORRISON’S SULA
Published 2018-02-01“…As such, what is denied is that the self is basically social. Toni Morrison, an Afro-American woman writer, works strenuously to get autonomous self to her female protagonist. …”
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The World Literature and Women’s Voice in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007)
Published 2021-03-01“…With this condition, the world literature enables to break the barriers of male Western authors as the center by offering room for female writers from non-Western countries.…”
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<b>Black women’s ‘two-ness’ in african-american literature: can black and white worlds join together?</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i1.4767
Published 2009-11-01“…The article discusses how black women keep contacts with both black and white worlds in novels written by African-American female writers. …”
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Black women’s ‘two-ness’ in african-american literature: can black and white worlds join together? = A dualidade de mulheres negras na literatura afro-americana: os mundos negro e...
Published 2010-01-01“…The article discusses how black women keep contacts with both black and white worlds in novels written by African-American female writers. …”
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Naming and a Black Woman's Aesthetic
Published 1993-12-01“…This is contrary to expectations; we would expect names, like those in the fiction of Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, and Toni Cade Bambara, that either claim black or matrilinear power or protest against black women's double unempowerment in a white, patriarchal society. …”
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Feline Alter Egos in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
“…At once me and not-me, the feline is racialized in the two writers’ works, and its function is akin to that of the “Africanist other” as defined by Toni Morrison in Playing in the Dark, Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. …”
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The Sustainability of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUS) in the Post-COVID-19 World and Beyond
Published 2023-06-01“…HBCUs have produced some of the most influential and successful graduates in all fields of study. Writers like Toni Morrison, current U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., and entertainment icons like Oprah Winfrey are just a few of the most famous and influential graduates of HBCUs. …”
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