DISCORDS OF MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOND IN TONI MORRISON’S SULA

1Chitra Soman, Dr.R. Jinu

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Abstract:

Motherhood is the sanctified institution of humankind, and for certain races its beyond social significances and has the importance of its survival. Toni Morrison keen on emphasising this ideology and her fiction presents the role of mothers and daughters in the sustenance and continuation of race. As a Black American Author Morrison emphasis this conflict and Penetrate the readers into the understanding of solution which is often Culturally Rooted Sula presents Black mothers from different generations and their daughters. and Toni Morrison presents how the daughters of these new generations are in conflict with their mothers causing disruption of Afro American ideology lead to the displacement of their lineage. This has been the outcome of the ineffectual cultural knowledge of own race arisen from the defective relationship between Mothers and Daughters.

Keywords:

Mother Lineage, Race, Afro American, Roots, Culture, Matri-Focal.

Paper Details
Month2
Year2020
Volume24
IssueIssue 3
Pages171-177