Toni Morrison Research Paper

In Toni Morrison’s books, she goes through multiple themes including slavery, magical realism, and love. Some people believe her themes are very conservertional and dark but Toni believes that it is important to show what really happened during slavery.

In Toni Morrison’s writing she uses some of her background to help create the themes of each book, and her historical context of writing. In a biography about Toni Morrison from The University of Michigan in paragraph 5 it says, “Morrison shows slavery through flashbacks and stories told by characters.” Another example for her writing is a quote from Bartleby, “Beloved (1987) explores love and supernatural.” (pg. 5) In a quote by Toni Morrison during an interview with the Guardian she says, “The central theme of Morrison’s novels is the black American experience.” The last quote by Toni Morrison, she explains “in an unjust society her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity.” All of these quotes prove my

In an article by goodreads Toni Morrison says, “Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.” At the 2004 Wellesley College Commencement Speech Morrison talks about, “The theme you choose may change or simply elude you but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who you are and what you mean.” In one of her books “Song of Solomon” she describes love, “Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you?” In 1981 Newsweek magazine interviewed Toni Morrison, “Of course I’m a black writer … I’m not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer, Latin American writer aren’t marginal anymore. We have to