The engaged literature in ‘Beloved’, by Toni Morrison
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https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2019.42368Keywords:
Civil rights movement, African-American Vernacular English, resistance, Toni Morrison.Abstract
This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of the linguistic matter in the literature of resistance compared to the Standard English pattern. In the first moment, specific relations of the Black Vernacular English are used in details in order to display the resistance of the theme in Morrison’s writing in comparison to the Standard English pattern. The corpus chosen for this article is Beloved, by Toni Morrison, in which the use of African American Vernacular English dialect, studied by Labov among other scholars, is present. The author circumscribes her writing on the civil rights movement recommended by Martin Luther King. Such linguistic characteristics that permeate Morrison’s text are peculiar to a select group of speakers, perpetuated by the segregation established by the white majority, and for being present at the literary materiality it demonstrates its chronological and sociological nature of resistance.
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