STRATEGIES OF CULTURAL RESISTANCE IN TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED AND ALICE WALKER’S MERIDIAN
STRATEGIES OF CULTURAL RESISTANCE IN TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED AND ALICE WALKER’S MERIDIAN
Author(s): Sajjad Gheytasi, Mohsen HanifSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: dominant discourse; faultlines; field of discursivity; nodal points; residual and emergent elements; dissidence;
Summary/Abstract: Marginalized cultures regularly seek strategies for supplanting the norms of the dominant culture in order to survive the encroaching sovereignty of its hegemonic discourse. This article aims to identify African-American underlying strategies for resisting the “white” culture, as represented in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alice Walker’s Meridian. The subalterns in these novels use faultlines to destabilize the nodal points on which an overarching culture’s field of discursivity is installed. The dissident culture ultimately opens up spaces for residual and emergent signifiers to redefine the existing signs in the supposedly fixed field of discursivity.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 28/2022
- Issue No: 28
- Page Range: 171-180
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English