International Journal of Development in Social Sciences and Humanities

The works of Toni Morrison largely reflect the history of African Americans. As a leading figure of the African American Renaissance, Morrison makes history a priority whether it is present, past, or future. She has made use of novel writing as a way of reshaping the discourse of slavery. Her novels reflect her desire to draw on people, places, languages, values, cultural traditions and politics, which have shaped her own life and that of African American people. The basic idea embedded in the narrative of Toni Morrison’s fiction is the position of blacks in the white American society, both in the present and the past. Her literature is completely committed and devoted to her folks and is a constant endeavor to put things in the right manner and context for them. Her works are considered artistically, historically, and politically important for this century. Beloved (1987) negotiates history as a narrative of the ownership of the most concrete fact of human existence as well as the most abstract of human relationships. It is a history and a representation of the complexities of love and sexual attraction. It foregrounds the dialogic tendencies of memory and its imaginative capacity to construct and reconstruct the significance of thepast.