Bell Hooks - Biography and Facts - Famous African Americans.
Through the Dark Eyes of Literature: Toni Morrison on Whiteness and (African) American Identity. bell hooks uses a citation of black intellectual James Cone to explain the meaning of colonialism and racial dominance or white supremacy as a consequence. Cone argues that “this country was founded for whites and everything that has happened.In 1983, after several years of teaching and writing, she completed her doctorate in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a dissertation on author Toni Morrison. Career ( edit ).In my thesis I aim to place the black female writer, as well as her characters, at the centre of the discussion. One African American writer, namely Toni Morrison, and one African writer, Yvonne Vera from Zimbabwe, will be discussed in detail, utilizing two novels from each writer.
For the next few years, hooks worked hard on her dissertation about the novelist Toni Morrison. At the same time, she completed her manuscript of Ain't I a Woman and published a book of poetry.ACKNOWLEDGEMETS Thanks to Allah, the Almighty who always gives me mercy, guidence, and opportunity to finish this thesis entitled The Oppressions Faced by Black Women Characters in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in order to fulfill the requirement for the writer degree, Sarjana Sastra.
In the works of Toni Morrison and bell hooks many similarities and differences can be drawn from their writings. Both authors come from similar backgrounds, Black middle aged females. Their background provides them with many bizarre and extraordinary beliefs that are uncommon to most Americans.
