The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Nobel laureate died on Monday. Here is a primer of her work that most vividly brought to life the Black experience.
, Morrison brought up a critical issue for Black writers: protecting your words from policing by white critics."I'm writing for black people in the same way that Tolstoy was not writing for me, a 14-year-old coloured girl from Lorain, Ohio," she said."I don't have to apologise or consider myself limited because I don't [write about white people] – which is not absolutely true, there are lots of white people in my books.
Morrison crafted characters in which Black readers could see themselves. She spoke and wrote of a brutal America that history books have attempted to dilute, and did so in elegant, thought-provoking prose that gave Black readers something historically stolen from them—their truth.The Bluest Eye Released in 1970, Morrison's debut novel centered on Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl growing up in post-Great Depression Ohio who was sexually abused by her father. The story traces her life as well as the early lives of her parents and their struggles to survive in a mostly white community. For decades, there have been
for its portrayal of incest, rape, and pedophilia, but its message of internalized racism resonates to this day.Morrison's 1973 novel became an important piece of Black feminist literature, as it focuses on the bonds between women and the rigid roles that they are forced into by society.
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