HISTORICIZING TONI MORRISON AND HER FICTION

The objective of this article is to explore the historicity of Toni Morrison and her major novels. In other words, the article will find out that the novels of Toni Morrison are the products of the wretched past of slavery. Toni Morrison has given vent to her feelings through her writings. Whatever she has felt and experienced in her personal life, has gone into the making of her writings. Here an attempt is made to show that Toni Morrison and her major novels are the products of history. The novels like Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Jazz are based on the history of slavery that the Blacks were subjugated through centuries. The article is going to present the correlation of Morrison's above novels with the history, at the backdrop of which these texts are produced.