The importance of community in the novels of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.

摘要

Two of the most popular writers of contemporary fiction are Pulitzer Prize winners Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. In their works, both black women unviel the negative control that White Anglo-Saxon values have on blacks. In Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, and Beloved and in Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, and The Color Purple, White Anglo-Saxon ideals promoted by society strip blacks of their identity and destroy their individuality and their humanity. In Morrison's Beloved and in Walker's The Color Purple, the importance of community is established.