Multiple Narratives, Dialogism and the Voice to the Marginalized People in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
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2012-07
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
This thesis entitled “ Multiple Narratives, Dialogism and the Voice to the
Marginalized People in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy” deals with multiple internal
focalizers’ perspective and Bakhtinian dialogism in order to portray the third person
heterodiegetic narrator and other focalizers such as Jacob Vaarks, Lina, Rebekka,
Sorrow, Willard and Scully and finally Florens’s mother with their multiple voices of
exploitation, domination, violence, social and racial injustice, gender discrimination
inflicted upon them. The shifting of multiple voices of different characters correspond
to their alienated condition to give them solace and make them able to confront
against their problems. The narrative begins with first person, main character
Florens’s alienated story, often repeating, then she loses her narrative and switches to
the third person Heterodiegetic narrator who being outside the story, narrates the story
of different characters from the several characters’ perspectives. The implications of
multiple narrative techniques along with multiple voices to represent the multiplicity,
unfinazability and indeterminacy of multiple characters, coming from the diversified
background in order to reflect the diversity of the social experiences, ways of
speaking, multiple consciousness, conceptualizations and values which is the
phenomenon of Bakhtinian dialogism.
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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Voice to the Marginalized People, Multiple Narratives, Dialogism