Re-Inscription of Black History/Body in Morrison's Beloved and Paradise
This article contends how Toni Morrison has used her black fiction to reject the dominant conceptions of reality and truth constructed by the white pahllogocentric discourses that tended to perpetuate white power interests. The poststructuralist assumption that knowledge and reality are socially constructed phenomenon provides useful insight into Morrison's narrative strategies and helps understand how, on one hand, she represents the ways the history of the black Africans had been badly disfigured in the white discourse resulting in the construction of the negative stereotypes of the black people as barbarians, savages, and uncivilized people whose mythical history and social values were invalidated as inauthentic and savage that needed the enlightening intervention of the white Europeans and, on the other hand, apart from revealing the discursive facts that control reality formation, she disrupts and displaces dominant and oppressive white knowledges.
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Black Feminism, Black History, Body, Morrison, Pahllogocentric Discourse
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(1) Mumtaz Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government Guru Nanak Postgraduate College, Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Asim Aqeel
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities & Linguistics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Sahar Javaid
Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Ahmad, M., Aqeel, A., & Javaid, S. (2020). Re-Inscription of Black History/Body in Morrison's Beloved and Paradise. Global Regional Review, V(IV), 128-134. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).13
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CHICAGO : Ahmad, Mumtaz, Asim Aqeel, and Sahar Javaid. 2020. "Re-Inscription of Black History/Body in Morrison's Beloved and Paradise." Global Regional Review, V (IV): 128-134 doi: 10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).13
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HARVARD : AHMAD, M., AQEEL, A. & JAVAID, S. 2020. Re-Inscription of Black History/Body in Morrison's Beloved and Paradise. Global Regional Review, V, 128-134.
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OXFORD : Ahmad, Mumtaz, Aqeel, Asim, and Javaid, Sahar (2020), "Re-Inscription of Black History/Body in Morrison's Beloved and Paradise", Global Regional Review, V (IV), 128-134
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TURABIAN : Ahmad, Mumtaz, Asim Aqeel, and Sahar Javaid. "Re-Inscription of Black History/Body in Morrison's Beloved and Paradise." Global Regional Review V, no. IV (2020): 128-134. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).13