I could not resist falling in love with her “Beloved”. “Beloved” is rather phenomenal, and its author was analytical and ambitious.
Leaving no room for you to be inquisitive about her, let me declare her identity with you. She is none but Toni Morrisonwhose use of fantasy, extraordinary sinuous poetic style and her gleaming incantatory prose do not find a synonym for her among any other English writers.
Morrison said, “Love is never any better than the lover”. I do not struggle to infer the irony behind her declaration. Meanwhile, she made her readers slightly flabbergasted with the opening sentence of her Beloved where she wrote“124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom”.Criticssay, “Beloved is such a unified novel that it’s difficult to discuss it without giving away the plot”.
I recollect, and then I repeat Toni Morrison’s quotes on her Beloved as if I recite an idyllic sonnet or a holy stanza and the same goes as follows; “I am Beloved, and she is mine. A man ain’t nothing but a man”.
Popular figure
With a hallowed and cherished life that spanned more than eight decades, Morrison established her self as a pivotal force in the domain of world’s literature; she still enjoys immense popularity among English writers as an iconic fiction writer whose influence notably on the aspect of American Literature is pivotal. Morrison, the winner of the Nobel prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction has never been away from being cited by the students of English literature from the Southern hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere.
Within the principality of American Literature, only a handful of names have got a knack of demanding themselvesas much as Morrison could.
Morrison’s oeuvre that is decorated by a multitudinous of novels short stories, essays as well as that of her diverse set of writings have invariably established an inexpungeable and ingrained symbol not just only on American Literature but also on the world’s literary rhetoricity and treatise. Morrison’s heroism in being outspoken while scrabbling about the subtle and weighty elements of human experience presents a literary breadth which makes the comprehension of intellectual insight of identity, gender, race and history.
Morrison’s virtuosity and wizardry for which she is popular has been a drawing in breath and it keeps any vivid reader occupied with her novels.
“Sula”
Morrison’s use of lyrical prose, evocative elucidation as well as that of the bona-fide dialogues lead to sink and souse the reader in a world that is painted on the citadel and her story, “Sula”, her 1973 novel is an ideal testimony.
Morrison’s dialogues in “Sula” are a classic contemplation of the cultural background and the personal histories of the characters living within “Sula”.
Morrison’s forte in enriching her story with a lavish application of a rich language is due to her charisma that assures an outstanding readership. Morrison relies on the fact that language is a robust and lusty tool at her disposal.
Her novels become an exception in her specific use of the non-linear narrative structure; she flawlessly and incomparably sails through different timelines, while entwining together past and present with the expectation of painting a medley of narratives that are effortlessly interconnected; in that account, Morrison’s “Beloved” is a classification in which the above fact is predominantly evident. The book is an edible example where the emotive and affecting wraith seeps into the character’s present, whilst making the boundaries between the present and the past indistinct.
Morrison’s knack for compelling and momentous themes in the calibre of slavery, racial prejudice, misogyny and gender discrimination are worthy of exploring by a student of American Literature; it demonstrates the enormous potentiality of Literature to gain a glare of publicity to burning and unheeded societal issues and call forth and give rise to meaningful and fruitful discussions.
In her debut novel “The Bluest Eye”, Morrison traverses the catastrophic bump and bang and smash and clash of incorporated and incarnated standards of racism and beauty on a young Afro-American damsel. Morrison had been vested with an intrinsic faculty of hunting through prominent themes that quiver with the reading public; it not only added glamour and beauty, depth and breath to her stories that made them far more relevant, timeless and effective.
