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- W4255605677 abstract "Hope is a perennial spring that waters and nurses the tree of life. Elements of chance and fate may play havoc and cause turbulence, but hope heals all wounds and, with the passage of time, soothes ruffled emotions. The very purpose of literature is to rekindle hope in the bleakness and absurdity of human existence. In fact the majority of modern fiction grapples with social ostracism and psychological trauma. A reoccurring theme in modern fiction is that the spark of life and light at the end of the tunnel drives the characters to crawl through misery and marginalisation. The hope most often driving these characters is the prospect of redemption and the promise of an entirely different future. Two emblematic works from modern fiction, James Joyce’s fictional work Ulysses and Beckett’s absurd drama Waiting for Godot, aim at a trivialization of the everyday struggle of common human beings. But the rendition of these struggles in artistic form transcends those caricatures and brings them to new heights of meaningfulness. Keeping this meaningfulness as a focus, I highlight the element of ‘hope’ in the first seven novels of Toni Morrison, Morrison, the first black woman Nobel Laureate, scavenged the mutilated lives of ‘niggers’ and sketched them with savage truthfulness in her scrape book. She generated a gallery of pitch dark portraits of the blacks in her writings. Women were given larger than life roles in Morrison’s novels and they play for the good of the black community. Reconciliation, deliverance, safe haven, and love are distinct synonyms of hope and are some of the oft repeated themes in Morrison’s works. In almost all her novels, she portrays the struggle of blacks to adapt to the white ways of life. In the process, many of her characters withered away. But still she persisted with her experimental envisioning of the life of blacks as they invariably live as a minority in the white world. In the process of her writing, she evolved a unique black identity for both black men and women." @default.
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- W4255605677 title "Dynamics of Hope in the Creative Writings of Toni Morrison" @default.
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