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Toni Morrison’s eighth novel, Love emphasizes the presence of African American ancestors who can play a crucial role in guiding their lost descendants. In this novel, the readers meet stray characters, Cosey, Heed, Christine, May and Junior who suffer from the loss of family ties and do not have any firm rootedness and connectedness. They do not have any guiding force as well as proper role models.
Morrison lays great emphasis on the roles of black ancestors and points out the importance of reading African American novels through the prism of ancestors’ presence and absence. We can find positive black ancestors in Love: L., both a narrator and the cook of Cosey’s resort, and Romen’s grandparent, Vida and Sandler. As for Cosey, he is rather an ambivalent figure whom L. evaluates both as a good and evil man.
Morrison depicts Romen’s gradual growth from innocence to experience and his grandparent’s careful and serious conversations related with his sexual relationship with sexually wild Junior. After remembering his grandfather’s hearty admonition, Romen becomes a maturer character who can give a successive healing effect to Junior who doesn’t have any secure sense of self.
Morrison also introduces a more informative and protective narrator/ ancestor and character, L. In this novel, L. also plays an important ancestorial role by providing an order for survival in the Cosey family. L. even poisons Cosey to nullify his unreasonable will and makes a faked will which gives the reason for life for several characters. With the help of guiding roles of black ancestors, Morrison continuously suggests characters’ whole survivals.
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/ 2003 / Review of Love / Kirkus Review 71 (15) : 984 ~
Asim, Jabari / 2003 / Toni Morrison Composes a ‘Love’ Supreme / Crisis 110 (6) : 44 ~
Bouson, J. Brook / 2008 / Uncovering “the Beloved” in the Warring and Lawless Women in Toni Morrison’s Love / Midwest Quarterly 49 (4) : 358 ~ 373
Burr, Benjamin / 2006 / Mythopoetic Syncretism in Paradise and the Deconstruction of Hospitality in Love, In Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities / Peter Lang : 159 ~
Davis, Thulani / 2003 / Not Beloved / Nation 277 (20) : 30 ~ 32
Asim, Jabari / 2003 / Toni Morrison Composes a ‘Love’ Supreme / Crisis 110 (6) : 44 ~
Bouson, J. Brook / 2008 / Uncovering “the Beloved” in the Warring and Lawless Women in Toni Morrison’s Love / Midwest Quarterly 49 (4) : 358 ~ 373
Burr, Benjamin / 2006 / Mythopoetic Syncretism in Paradise and the Deconstruction of Hospitality in Love, In Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities / Peter Lang : 159 ~
Davis, Thulani / 2003 / Not Beloved / Nation 277 (20) : 30 ~ 32
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