Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

For hundreds of years , the black was in Alterity , an otherness that those who proved most
potent did not want to know , but to obey.Toni Morrison is one of the voices that have managed
to have an echo through his books about the experience of African slaves , brought in the socalled Middle Passage, to America to meet the most demeaning work in the harshest conditions.
Writings on African-American slaves experiences do, since the first narratives , constantly call to
memory, Toni Morrison suggests , are autobiographical , which wants to show both a personal
experience , but that is still a symbol of the suffering of the whole races, as well as convince the
reader that the slaves have a humanity that has been denied unfairly .
However, as Toni Morrison points out in an article called "The Site of Memory" , the style of
these writings was a long time , one that avoided too violent scenes or descriptions detailing the
suffering moments to satisfy a particular taste the public's time.
The new type of African- American writing as Toni Morrison sees it , is one that must have the
courage to take down that veil , because the experiences endured by slaves can have an impact as
stronger.
Toni Morrison , her real name is Chloe Ardelia Wofford ,was born in Lorain , a small town in
Ohio, in a modest environment ,, then with an exceptional destiny , becoming the most popular
American novelist of our era .
The famous American writer Toni Morrison received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 and
other prestigious awards , including the Pulitzer Prize . She is the first writer who reinstated the
painful history of Afro- Americans.
Slavery and racism are those existential fragments showing the workswriter , bestiality of a
certain type of aggression . From the point of view of the literal meaning of the word slavery , it
also underscores

Toni Morrison 's works a complex phenomenon , revealing the brutality of hundred years
domination of slaves in the United States. From the social perspective , slavery symbolizes the
individual 's thirst for power and domination . Slavery can be defined in general terms as the sum
of constrictive limits imposed by a person over another individual in some historical and
psychological contexts that encourage the appearance of an abusive act .
Toni Morrison 's novels are not meant to formulate types of moral sentences of slavery. The
novels

send an aesthetic emotion type using

complicated and psychologically complex

characters.
Slavery and racism are reconstructed and redefined permanent in literary universe of the writer.
The narrative of this novel is full of resonant lyrical biblical symbols , metaphors , strange
secrets , ghosts, folklore traditions and myths. Conceived as the history of a family and of a
community , " Song of Solomon " will be converted into an uncomfortable debate about racism
debate that would seem unfair at first, but the fact that we are dealing with an established author
will reassure us to some extent consciousness . Macon Dead exceeds its condition and builds his
life " white " .
Beautiful and artistic , Toni Morrison 's writing draws you straight into the whirl of events ,
giving you a grandiose and controversial spectactacol , what you will put your mind in motion.
Song of Solomon begins by describing a desperate and lonely man who tries to fly, followed by a
woman in the early stages of torment birth . The novel continues the story of this child , the first
colored child born in Mercy Hospital. The woman in travail had been allowed to enter the
hospital because of unrest sparked by the man who was trying to launch into flight from the roof
because the child's father was the first doctor in the city. The circumstances of the birth of this
child - desires, disappointments and dispossession - are problems he faces and that , eventually ,
he will solve .
The child, Macon Dead Jr., son of the richest families of color in a city in the central United
States enjoys a privileged childhood , though largely loveless . His parents were long estranged
from each other . Only when Macon meet his paternal aunt's family , discovers that family
history is full of hidden secrets and stories that he really need to know.
<Trauma>

is a chapter composed of subdivisions : Bipolar Disorder and

Necrophilia . The first chapter

is focused on finding correspondences

between bipolar disorder and complexity in the novel Song of Solomon.

Using the solid argument medical mental illness it could establish a parallel
between the conditions of extreme happiness and extreme depression.
Bipolar Disorder exposes the drama of several generations of African
Americans , strongly marked by the consequences of slavery and racism .
Necrophilia describes the shocking sexual relationship between a daughter
and her father. All the characters in Toni Morrison novels

in one way or

another have a certain contradiction with themselves and therefore to

society and the idea of race. They evolve in intricate and difficult situations ,
obtaining the status of being iconic literary identity .
Their realism turns them into living entities with the potential to change the lives of the reader.
Toni Morrison introduces the reader into a different world from consecrated white writers. She
succeeds through the plot and the characters , to restore the credibility of African-american
experience .
The challenge of Song of Solomon was to manage what was for me a radical shift in
imagination from a female locus to a male one. To get out of the house, to dedomesticate the
landscape that had so far been the site of my work. To travel. To fly. In such an overtly,
stereotypically male narrative, I thought that straightforward chronology would be more suitable
than the kind of play with sequence and time I had employed in my previous novels. A journey,
then, with the accomplishment of flight, the triumphant end of a trip through earth, to its surface,
on into water, and finally into air. All very saga-like. Old-school heroic, but with other
meanings.

Bibliography:

Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York: Random House Inc., 1995.

Rickford, John R. African American Vernacular English. Features, Evolution,

Educational Implications.Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Inc.,
1999.

Green, Lisa J. African American English. A Linguistic

Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.