Toni Morrison's Fiction: From Eye to Love.

      Аннотация: Toni Morrison, The first African American woman novelist to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, has made a substantial contribution to the complex body of African American writing. The book examines the many ways in which Toni Morrison’s fiction has impacted upon the way of looking at African American women. The book is mainly dealing with the themes and techniques used by Toni Morrison, laying emphasis on the author’s empathetic embrace of the African American woman’s condition. The first part of the book shows the analysis of the selected novels considering the themes like Race, Gender and Class, Patriarchy vs Matriarchy, Love and Hatred, Dreams and Dreaming, Rape, Sexuality, Violence and Murder, and Relationships among Women. The second part of the book presents the novelistic techniques like Narrative Techniques, Plot Construction, Characterization, Setting and Structure. The book aims at anticipating students more interested in the first eight novels of Toni Morrison and African American literature. With much analysis of Toni Morrison’s use of themes and techniques, the book will serve as ready reference to new researchers and academicians in modern period.

Ключевые слова: Themes and Techniques