Black is Beautiful

Toni Morrison is the first African American woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In her work Morrison demonstrates an 'oppositional attitude' to the hegemony of White America and asserts the identity of Black women as a historical subject. She explores the experiences and roles of black women in a racist and male dominated society. At the same time, she also documents the nuances of unique and complex cultural inheritance of African-Americans. The basic premise of the present book is an attempt to identify basic issues of postcolonial theory which are reflected in the vivid experiences of Morrison's characters such as hegemony, displacement, stereotyping, resistance, subversion and hybridity.