كليدواژه :
Feminism , slavery , beloved , Toni Morrison , margin , identity crisis
چكيده لاتين :
The institution of slavery transformed family life and social values beyond recognition,
leaving the black people to carry the burden of a life filled with shame, betrayal,
endurance and identity crisis in the margins even after the abolition of slavery. The
situation is much worse for black women who, being both black and female, are doubly
oppressed and marginalized in white patriarchal societies. Toni Morrisonʹs Beloved,
which is the focus of the present research, mainly deals with the representation of
traumatic experiences undergone by African American female slaves due to their
enslavement by the white oppressors and the repercussions of such appalling experiences.
The present study, employing an eclecticism of feminist trends, aims at investigating how
the above issues reveal Morrisonʹs lament, under the guise of her narrative, for the
upheavals which transformed human society from a pure natural one to a mixture of
aberrant elements leading to identity crisis and subsequently disintegrated identity in the
case of black women.
