Strategies of Dealing with Individual and Cultural Trauma in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon

Abstract

The theme on which my thesis centers is how traumatic individual and cultural past affect the lives of African Americans in 20th century America and what strategies they employ in order to cope with trauma. I analyze fictional characters appearing in two of the novels of Toni Morrison. The theoretical framework within which the thesis is placed consists of possible worlds theory and Lubomir Dolezel's concept of epistemic modality.