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A Study of the Postmodern Perspective in Morrison's Novels: Paradise & Love

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Author

Zoobia Abbas

Department

Department of English

Program

Mphil

Institute

National University of Modern Languages

Institute Type

Public

City

Islamabad

Province

Islamabad

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2011

Subject

English Language

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676728712458

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A Study of the Postmodern Perspective in Morrison's Novels: Paradise & Love A novel is a piece of art that is accessible to read for getting pleasure while a postmodern African-American novel is that that probes the reader to investigate the truth. Many African American novels seek to rearticulate the history of America and negotiate through different characters the revival of African community among Americans. Morrison's narratives from the very out set are the voice of blacks in the world of novels. When the civil rights movement degraded the African American nation socially, psychologically and morally in the eyes of White Americans then there born black scholars and writers who through their narratives started to fight for blacks' identity. Toni Morrison is leading to her contemporary as she is the first African American lady who violated white rules and write only for blacks. She speaks through her characters against the white gaze racism and sexism. She is a spokesperson of African American nation as she in a postmodern way retells the history of blacks and openly writes for black race. She challenges the whites and specially her readers to be active during her reading instead of a passive consumer of novel. Morrison's novels challenges the reader to deeper their knowledge about literature on a wider scale, to be an active co-creator and the interrogator by looking back and forth in the history.
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