Color Metaphor and Children’s Psychological Trauma in Morrison’s Novels

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.321How to use a DOI?

Keywords

color metaphor, psychological trauma, Toni Morrison

Abstract

“Trauma” is one of the important themes in Morrison’s novels. In recent years, some critics use trauma theory to interpret Morrison’s works, and combine her identity as a black female writer with feminist critical theory to analyze the black women’s trauma in her works. This paper breaks through the limitation of interpreting Morrison’s works from the perspective of feminism and racism, and it analyzes the color metaphor in the text based on the trauma theory. In addition, Morrison’s novels describing the traumatic experience of black children are selected as the research objects in an attempt to show the unspeakable traumatic experience of black children in different historical periods.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
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