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- Title
Writing Resistance: an Understanding of the Narratives of Empowerment in Toni Morrison's A Mercy.
- Authors
Shilaja, C. L.
- Abstract
Language is the medium by which one's psychological experiences, emotions and imaginations can be recreated in the minds of the reader or listener. Through ages language has been the vehicle with which humans have communicated ideas to each other. Language has not only the power to heal and to comfort but also to retrieve the suppressed experiences of an individual from the past. This paper seeks to discuss Toni Morrison's novel A Mercy as a text that explores the common language uncommonly well in using it as a double edged sword. She subverts language in a rather complex play of words employing it as a powerful tool for the survival and continuance of existence for the voiceless. It becomes a means of identity construction as much as a tool of empowerment, for the marginalized to overcome their traumatic experiences.
- Subjects
MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019; MERCY, A (Book); POWER (Social sciences) in literature
- Publication
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 1, p153
- ISSN
0975-2935
- Publication type
Literary Criticism