Trauma and the pariah status in Toni Morrison's beloved and a mercy

Abstract

This Research work studies Trauma and the Pariah Status in Toni Morrison'sBeloved and A Mercy. In her historic fictions, Toni Morrison depicts America in the bleak era of slavery. This work explores Trauma theory as a theoretical approach to prove how the characters' traumas bring to the foreground their self-estrangement and dissociation, and how their dissociative state impels them to become pariahs. This dissertation reveals the predicament of the blacks who live like pariahs within their own marginalized community