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- Title
The Shell-Shocked Veteran in Toni Morrison's Sula and Home.
- Authors
LÓPEZ RAMÍREZ, MANUELA
- Abstract
In Sula (1973) and Home (1973) Toni Morrison depicts the madness of the homecoming war veteran, whose symptoms and their consequences impair his life. Through the return of her traumatized African American soldiers, she explores the tensions of a racially-prejudiced America and the dire consequences for the black community and self. Morrison unveils the destruction that racism effects on blacks, both the physical and psychological violence. Hence Sula and Home become anti-war novels which portray anti-heroes, broken men, whose madness is associated with the war, but also with a racist America.
- Subjects
SULA (Book : Morrison); HOME (Book : Morrison); MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019; AFRICAN American military personnel in literature; VETERANS in literature; COMBAT stress reaction; POST-traumatic stress disorder in literature; RACISM in literature
- Publication
Atlantis (0210-6124), 2016, Vol 38, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
0210-6124
- Publication type
Literary Criticism