Open AccessPulling It Together: Human Resilience and Community in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Author(s) -
Ankur Yadav
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
smart moves journal ijellh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-4406
pISSN - 2582-3574
DOI - 10.24113/ijellh.v9i8.11151
Subject(s) - solidarity , harmony (color) , narrative , resistance (ecology) , resilience (materials science) , sociology , psychological resilience , aesthetics , environmental ethics , political science , social psychology , psychology , law , art , ecology , visual arts , philosophy , literature , physics , politics , biology , thermodynamics
Toni Morrison’s Beloved is the story of the sufferings of Afro-American’s slavery, trauma of being forced to leave their homelands, horrors of parting with their relatives and the resilience of the Black Community to restore peace and harmony among themselves. The present paper demonstrates the extent to which individuals need the support of their communities in order to survive and how the community as a whole rises resiliently to overcome the trauma and pacify the sufferings of individuals. Morrison in this novel, benevolently asserts the need of community, its solidarity and its interdependence in offering resistance and kindling the spirit of resilience for the individual redemption by knitting a diverse and fragmented narrative only to be exorcised for a better future.