Commodification of Love in Toni Morrison's Love
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Gupta, Dipendra Kumar
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Department of English
Abstract
Toni Morrison's Love portrays the female characters surrounding a single male
Bill Cosey,who fascinates and even dominates them. They all love Cosey while alive
and even after his death. But they use their love-commodify-to acquire the
property, position and power of Cosey. Thus, the commodification of love is for the
power which Cosey practiced upon them. The female characters Heed, Christine,
May, Vida, L, Celestine and even Junior have seen the power and position of Cosey,
and to inherit and poseit, they commodity their love. Here, the use and intention of
commodification-or self-commodification-has positive effect and impact.