Toni Morrison Research Paper

Twentieth Century Literature, particularly novel is characterized by a major theme of anger which inherently exists in Toni Morrison's masterpiece The Bluest Eye . Chloe Anthony Wofford, known as Toni Morrison, was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, US to African American parents. Being African American, she has been raised to appreciate the Black culture. Besides, since her childhood, her parents have taught her to love reading and music; thus, she has become infatuated with knowledge throughout her life. She has studied English and literature at Howard University and received her master's degree from Cornell University. Later on, she has begun her academic work and writing career. She has been influenced by Virginia
Influenced by her origins, Morrison's literary works explore and examine the black experience. For example, her first novel The Bluest Eye ( 1970) examines the black experience in a white racist society, which shall be discussed in detail later on in this research paper. Morrison has received many awards for her works like the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction that she has received after her masterpiece Beloved. She has also won the 1993 Noble Prize in literature which makes her the first African American woman to win such a prize. As Mckay defines Morrison's works in ''Critical Essays on Toni Morrison'' as '' a rejection of white patriarchal modernism, and radical revisions of the race-and male-centered Afro-American literary tradition, and aim to liberate the latter from the social realism into which it has long been mired''(2). As for Morrison's The Bluest Eye, which shall be our focus, it is a perfect example of the African American experience in a white society. The Bluest Eye has been written within the period from (1962-1965) and published in 1970. It is a tragic literary English novel that reveals the misery and suffering of African Americans in white