Toni Morrison: The Feminist Icon

Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate black American feminist writer portrays the alienated individual’s odyssey for attaining the integration of the self by assimilating or discarding the social values of the community they live in. In the United States the contemporary feminist movement started with the white, middle class women’s struggle to do away with the sexiest oppression and to attain equal opportunity, with the white, middle-or-upper class men. This anthology covers detailed study of Toni Morisson’s fiction in a feminist perspective. Freud’s psychoanalysis and his theory of ‘Hysteria’ and Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Helen Cixous’ conception of ‘Hysteria’ and their relations with Toni Morrison’s fiction, is a definitely interesting reading of this anthology. Derrida’s deconstruction theory and Toni Morrison’s fiction-a rare combination, is also an eye-catching factor of this book.