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- Title
Black Women and Racial Stereotypes: A Black Feminist Reading of Morrison's Novels.
- Authors
Qasim, Khamsa; Hayat, Mazhar; Asmat, Uzma
- Abstract
The article focuses on the representation made by author Toni Morrison on the black women characters on her novels. It states that black female characters of Morrison challenge all the stereotypical negative images such as being ugly as compared to beautiful women. It says that black woman Naomi Wolf of "The Beauty Myth" suffers equality that women face in the myth of female beauty. It adds that Lisa William of "The Bluest Eye" was destroyed by her own internalized self hatred.
- Subjects
MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019; LITERARY characters; BLACK women in literature; STEREOTYPES in literature; GENDER inequality; SELF-hate (Psychology); BEAUTY Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, The (Book); BLUEST Eye, The (Book : Morrison)
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 5, p211
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article