There was a time when using male pseudonyms for female writers was almost imperative in order to achieve social acceptance. The prejudices about a woman's abilities to write were like this. Cases like that of isak dinesen o Mary shelly or even nowadays certain writers with a penchant for ambiguous pseudonyms, like JK Rowling...
Perhaps for this reason, the writer Chloe Ardelia Wofford decided to persist in her alias Toni Morrison, as a way of evoking injustices and prejudices still ingrained in certain sectors due to sex, race or religion. Because this Afro-American author had as narrative support the current reality of an American society formed in that amalgam of cultures in which the Afro-American or the Latino still has a certain differentiating stigma.
Toni's literary vocation manifested itself late, with a first novel published at the age in which writers are currently looking at their consolidation as authors with a certain renown or at the abyss of mediocrity that ends up frustrating literary vocations.
Of course, when a figure like Toni Morrison emerges with her literary quality, her thematic virulence and her vocation as a chronicler involved with current events, stereotypes end up being blown up to end up elevating a voice necessary to understand what the miscegenation in a representative society of the West such as the United States.
Top 3 best Toni Morrison books:
Beloved
The biblical paradigm of the parent invited to execute his own child to achieve some kind of salvation. Abraham about to sentence his son Isaac to death.
A modern revision with the stigma component of being a woman and also black, a condemnation per se. Sethe is a slave, her will faces the wall of reality where she only has to take shelter in the shade or stamped herself crudely.
His beloved daughter has the same fate written in the shadow of the wall, the cruel fate and evil that haunts her from an early age.
When death is the only possible solution to the impositions of an absolutely cruel reality, without a doubt the narrative that accompanies this approach ends up being a story polarized between love and hate, between longings and nightmares…. A novel as disconcerting as it is disturbing in its tangible and recognizable harshness in our world.
Back
The moment in which you surrender to the values of a nation that champions freedom and the next moment in which you must assume that everything is a grimace of irony.
Nobody told Frank Money to go to that Korean War that lasted fruitlessly between 1950 and 1953, at least that's what he would consider upon his return, being a veteran subjected to the same previous inconsiderations, or even worse.
But deep down, Frank needs causes. In the past it was a war in which she did not paint anything and now she is her own sister Cee, abandoned by her husband and condemned to a multitude of misfortunes for thinking that she could participate in an American society open to all kinds of people regardless of other conditions.
The cause of the fragile Cee, supported by Frank, becomes a story in search of impossible compensation for unimaginable damages...
The search for justice in the face of aberration that cannot find a sentence that frees the victim's punishment.
Children's night
In Beloved, the author's special sensitivity to childhood was already guessed, especially when she is subjected to cruelties that are looming by social or race condition.
Bride was a disowned child since she came out of her mother's womb. Genetics are fickle and genes can skip generations until randomly the dice make up an unexpected trait. Bride is black, like some of her ancestors.
But no one expected it to be like this. From a childhood of repudiation and guilt we advance to a maturity built on the weakness of deficiencies.
Faking social integration may work for a while, depending on the social skills of each person. But Bride is waiting for an explosion of reality where guilt and sadness emerge.
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