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Racial Discrimination and Victimization of Individuality: A Delgadiaon Analysis of Morrison’s The Origins Of Others

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The current research contour racial discrimination and victimization of individuality of different characters in The Origins of Others by renowned Afro-American novelist and critic Toni Morrison. It further unveils the violence prevailed in a society where almost everything is predicted normal. Richard Delgado’s Critical Race Theory has been adopted to analyze the different situations and character observations. In addition, it discusses the master slave relation in the lenses of Morison. It also pins-down how Morison gives pithy allusion of inter-textualities in her masterpiece. This study also identifies clash among white and black people, and the influence of whites over blacks and other minorities. In result of this racial unfair, the individuality of blacks disturbed severely under this inhuman scenario. This paper concludes how Morrison’s characters transit from being to becoming the stranger in The Origins of Others.

Source: Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies

DOI: 10.71281/jals.v3i1.252

Authors: Quratulain Mumtaz, Mobeen Ahmed Khan

Institutions: Riphah International University, University of Faisalabad, University of Agriculture Faisalabad

Language: English

Topic: American Literature and Culture

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4408671447

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