The Voice of Voices: Toni Morrison

Abstract

The study proposes to examine Toni Morrison’s voice for the voices through her writings. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is the conspicuous writer of African American society, prominently famous for showcasing the harsh reality of African American society. She raised her voice against injustice, slavery, racism, social rejection, self-rejection, violence, discrimination, and victimization of black society over the dominant white class. Her major concern was to let the readers be conscious of their ancestor’s suffering as well as current social concern. She bravely attacked white dominant society with her writing. Her writing was focused on the problems of the society which she presented as an African American writer with her own experience. She wrote and stands for the whole black suffering. Most of the protagonists of her novel are female. And she aims to raise the voice for the problem so she keenly observed and wove the situation in complexity so that the protagonist is trapped and failed to find the solution. Her novels are filled with the emotions like anger, guilt, frustration, low self-esteem, and self-doubt. Most writers choose their hero or heroine with courageous and admiring qualities but Morrison boldly picked her heroines with feeling self-doubt, pity, fear, and anger, and used it as a strong weapon to show the reality of their suffering.