Head & Associate Professor,
Toni Morrison has presented the realistic picture of African American lives through her novels. She thinks that in the slave narratives so many issues and aspects related to the lives of African Americans are missed out and forgotten. She feels that it is dangerous if one forgets the past or never tries to understand it. She also feels that it is her responsibility to bring out these facts before her readers and make them aware and think about the horrible and terrible conditions of African Americans during slavery. The present paper is an attempt to study that how Toni Morrison has depicted the picture of slavery and its effect on the lives of African Americans in Beloved. It also discusses Toni Morrison as a critique of an institutionalized dehumanization in Beloved. Beloved presents that how the African Americans were dehumanized by the established institutions during slavery.
Slavery, racism, institution, dehumanization
