To study the image and personality of women in the novels of Toni Morrison.

Abstract

Toni Morrison is an American author, editor, professor who got Pulitzer Prize for her fiction beloved in 1998. She is the first black women to receive Nobel Prize in literature in 1993. Toni Morrison’s original name is Chloe Anthony Wofford. She grew up in an American family that possessed an intensive love and appreciation for black culture. Morrison’s novel characterized by visionary force and poetic import gives life to an essential aspect. She is pioneer in Black feminism. In her writings we see black women to love themselves, their race and their culture and not to trap in white superiority or white beauty standards. The present article attempts to examine major character’s ways of forming self - concept in the face of racism. It also attempts to show that those black female characters of Toni who follow womanistic ideas manage to cope with their problems and eventually survive.