thesis

Crise d'identité et volonté d'auto-définition dans les romans de Toni Morrison

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1988

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Institution:

Paris 12

Disciplines:

Literature

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Abstract EN:

In each of morrison's novels published until 1987, the hero reveals a crisis of his identity and searches for self-definition either through alienation in the bluest eye, revolt in sula, or solidarity in song of solomon. Tar baby, the fourth novel, is an illustration of some traps set in front to the here in his adventure. As regards writing, morrison constantly associates to that of identity which is central, the following themes: sexuality, desalienation, the naming of characters and places, race mixing and negritude.

Abstract FR:

Dans chacun des quatre romans de morrison publies jusqu'en 1987, le heros connait une crise d'identite et cherche, de ce fait, a se redefinir a travers une attitude d'alienation (the bluest eye), de revolte (sula) ou de solidarite (song of solomon). Le quatrieme roman, tar baby, illustre les pieges tendus au heros dans la realisation de son programme d'action. Sur le plan de l'ecriture, les romans de morrison associent, de facon recurrente, certains themes a celui de l'identite qui les structure: la sexualite, la desalienation, la nomination des etres et des objets, le metissage, la negritude.