Being A Black Woman And Importance Of Religion In Toni Morrison’s Paradise

Year 2016, Volume: 9 Issue: 27/3, 62 - 81, 29.07.2016

ONUR Kaya

Abstract

The Society of USA is consisted of many different racial groups. It could be said that among these groups African Americans are the ones who suffered mostly from the segregation of the white male. However, there is a more disadvantageous group in African Americas as African American women who are segregated by not only while males but also black males. From this point, Toni Morrison becomes the voice of this suppressed group of American society in her novel Paradise (1997).

                In this study, the way Morrison represents the African American women is analyzed. For this analysis, the racist approaches and feminist approaches in American literature provides the analysis. From this point, the suppression of the African American women by religious and racist approaches is analyzed. By this analysis, how the African American women are segregated is told. Moreover, the relation of gender and religion, their effect on women and reflection of all these on real lives of African American women is told.

                Finally, the analysis of the work within these approaches reveals the representation of black woman and the effects of religion on their lives.

Keywords: Race, Religion, USA, Woman, Man

Keywords

Race, Religion, USA, Woman, Man

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