Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol 2, No 7 (2012), 1415-1419, Jul 2012
doi:10.4304/tpls.2.7.1415-1419
Spiritually Enslaving or Being Enslaved—On the Female Images in Song of Solomon
Abstract
This paper aims at analyzing Song of Solomon written by Toni Morrison to show the author’s Afro-American feminist tendency. Song of Solomon is a masterpiece that pays close attention to the fate of American black woman. The author mainly use Afro-American feminist criticism as a way to show her own thoughts and black people’s song that Solomon wants to fly as the main rhyme to depict a free world for the female black, and analyses and combines the main female images in this novel with the theory closely.
Keywords
Song of Solomon; Afro-American feminist criticism; spiritual freedom
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