International Journal of Literature and Language Studies
Vol. 5 No. 07 (2026): International Journal of Literature and Language Studies

THE ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN TONI MORRISON’S NOVELS

Nurmetova lqboloy Umirbek qizi (The 1 st year master student of Asia International university)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Jul 2026

Abstract

This article examines the artistic interpretation of African American identity in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved. A qualitative textual method is used to analyze the role of racial standards, memory, gender, family history, community, and cultural inheritance. The findings show that Morrison presents identity not as a fixed personal quality but as a process formed through conflict between external judgment and internal cultural knowledge. Her multiple narrators, fragmented chronology, symbolism, oral traditions, and supernatural elements give artistic form to experiences often excluded from official history. The article concludes that Morrison’s fiction transforms African American identity from an imposed racial category into a complex consciousness based on memory, relation, resistance, and cultural continuity.

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ijlls

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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The mission of the International Journal of Literature and Language Studies (IJLLS) is to provide readers with the development of language studies in linguistics and literature. In addition to manuscripts that center on the study, we welcome manuscripts on a wide range of topics relating to the ...