Political of Trauma in Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved

Abstract

The novels Sula and Beloved depict the effect of the patriarchal domination, bias, prejudice, and the dehumanizing outcome of the slavery system. Sula focuses on the fragmented traumatic memory of the characters. Being the traumatic characters their behaviors and activities seen in the form of enigmatic survival, distress and idiosyncratic behave etc. the fragmented memory of the characters acting out from the novel Sula. Likewise, the novel Beloved is the representation of the traumatic experiences exploded through the activities of the characters. Most of the activities are dominated by the psychological and physical experienced of the characters due to the excessive exploitation the slavery system. The novel is the reality of the slave traumatized life experiences, the dehumanization of black people, the moral degradation of their masters, and ever-present violence. Cruelty, punishment, separation of the family member proved the slavery as an extreme form of the black’s exploitation. The slave’s broken body is a vivid evidence of the trauma undergone. Thus, the novels Sula and Beloved supports the traumatized voice of the characters to give them remedial power but their voices are under the shadow of the politics.