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ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.07.002

Identity Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Tony Morrison’s Trilogy Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise

Erum Liaqat1, Muhammad Arfan Lodhi2,*

1National College of Business and Administration, Bahawalpur 63100, Punjab, Pakistan.

2Higher Education Department (Collegiate Wing), Lahore 54000, Punjab, Pakistan.

*Corresponding author: Muhammad Arfan Lodhi

Published: July 26,2024

Abstract

This research work addresses identity crises in the selected novels of Toni Morrison, which is a trilogy starting with Beloved followed by Jazz and ends with Paradise. The research work shows how identity formation takes place through the process of deconstruction and reconstruction. The researcher has discussed identity theories presented by different people from time to time. The concept of identity is used by different English writers from South Africa to America, Pakistan, and India. The identity deconstruction theory of Jacques Derrida is applied to the selected work. The data was analyzed through codification and observation. Comparative analysis of different literary elements is performed along with different themes and ideas discussed in three novels. Slavery and its effects in the racial societies were discrimination, oppression, and subjugation of slaves in general but females in particular leave traumatic effects that persist long after the end of slavery with reconstruction in the reconstruction era. The trilogy shows the history of slave narration from Harlem in the 1920s and reconstruction, through the stories based on the observation of the writer who herself was a great representative of Afro-Americans, and the works are admired not only in South Africa but all over the world and were awarded the Noble Prize.

Keywords

Identity crisis; identity formation; slavery; racism; oppression and subjugation

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How to cite this paper

Identity Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Tony Morrison’s Trilogy Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise

How to cite this paper: Erum Liaqat, Muhammad Arfan Lodhi. (2024) Identity Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Tony Morrison’s Trilogy Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science8(7), 1544-1557.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.07.002