Toni Morrison’s Beloved: The Dissonance between White American Liberalism and the lived experiences of African Americans.

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Gobran Abdullah Saif Saif , Sonjoy Dutta Roy

Toni Morrison, Beloved, White American Liberalism, African Americans, White Supremacy, Freedom, Social Justice.

Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) is a critique of white American liberalism in the post-Civil War period. While the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) witnessed the abolition of slavery and the extension of citizenship and voting rights to people of color, white American liberalism has failed to follow through and realize these rights. In Beloved, Morrison exposes this failure, indicating that there has been a dissonance within white American liberal values and that this dissonance serves to reinforce White Supremacy. This article seeks to explore this dissonance within the American white liberal values through the analysis of the lived experiences of Morrison’s characters in Beloved. When African Americans show resistance against the dehumanization they face in America, white liberals drop all the pretence of civilization, become beasts, and wreak havoc in the lives of African Americans. In Beloved, Morrison suggests that American ideals such as freedom and social justice are rights white Americans never intend to grant to African Americans. White slaveholders of Sweet Home plantation, under the veil of the apparently noble abolitionist ideals, exploit their slaves to the limit and subject them to the worst inhumane treatment. Mr. Garner’s abolitionist ideals are no better than slogans used to maintain his ironclad grip of Sweet Home slaves. In the same way, Schoolteacher who hunts down Sethe and her children in the free North to return them to slavery pretends that he does so to rescue them from the supposed cannibal life they lead.

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Gobran Abdullah Saif Saif & Sonjoy Dutta Roy (July-2024). Toni Morrison’s Beloved: The Dissonance between White American Liberalism and the lived experiences of African Americans. . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(7), a229-a249. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2407024.pdf

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