Ours Beloved Toni Morrison

Résumé du livre

In the year 1987, a book was published by a Black woman. It was a heart-wrenching and thought-provoking rendition of the long-standing and detrimental impacts of slavery on human minds. A black woman had dared to venture on a journey that would ruffle a few feathers. She had audaciously chosen to walk the untrodden and perilous path. She had the chutzpah to touch the thorny subjects that hitherto had been conveniently brushed under the carpet for too long. The book didn’t hog the headlines, nor did it bring a windfall for the author. Nonetheless, one who read the book can never forget the characters, their sufferings, their traumatizing lives, and the harsh reality behind the fictional words. The story and its breathtaking narration have left an indelible mark on the minds of its readers. The book was Beloved, and the extraordinary writer was the revered, the most talented Toni Morrison. Morrison had the gumption to throw the gauntlet at her readers, daring them to face the truth, questioning the facades of rectitude that society upholds feigning ignorance of all harsh realities that has been and is still plaguing our society. Morrison not only pointed fingers at the racial discrimination meted out to the black community but also questions the condition of women within her black community. Some critics have had distasteful comments pertinent to her book; nonetheless, Morrison bagged the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 silencing all her skeptics.