• Dr. Lalit Gehlot

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• Himani Gehlot

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Toni Morrison is an African-American novelist, born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio,
during the great depression. Her father George Wofford was a shipyard welder and her mother Ramah was a
lady of high esteem in the society as a religious woman. They were perfect guides for their talented daughter
Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison was the second of the four children of her parents. She didn’t face the era of
ruthless slavery as an African American but she obviously felt its resultant atmosphere in her teens.
During the Harlem Renaissance (1920s and early 1930s) Jessie Fauset was the only female black author to
publish three novels in America. After that Toni Morrison as an editor at Random House brought several
black writers including Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas, and Gayl Jones in the publishers’
list. Fauste and Morrison both sought to create a canon of black literature.
Identifying major internal conflicts probe into the issue of internal differences among the blacks. It
shows the fat problem of internal disparity existing at various levels of social, racial and religious beliefs in
them. Toni Morrison’s novels The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1977), Song of Solomon (1981), Tar Baby (1981)
and Paradise (1998) are full of subsequent details which speculate on the problem of mutual disagreement
among the blacks over unimaginable issues in their day to day life. It delineates a map of internal or innerself
conflicts of the humdrum life of the Afro-Americans in the contemporary time.

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