![]() ![]() ![]() Home has been considered as the symbol of psychic imagination and at the core of under scrutiny lies its power to generate healing: transcending the wounds of the past, re-envisioning and transforming the home into self-nurturing and self-validating place rely on the characters’ awareness of their traumas and on their deepening sense of personal responsibility. This dissertation analyzes Toni Morrison’s final five novels, namely Paradise, Love, A Mercy, Home and God Help the Child and seeks to explore the trope of home in every sense of the word-including the allegorical representation of the United States in the black American experience-as a house haunted by both racialized and sexualized violence to probe the legacies of masculine and political violence as well as the trauma of dispossession that haunts African Americans. ![]()
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