Subaltern Historiography in Morrison’s Home
| dc.contributor.author | Sapkota, Tul Maya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-08T10:27:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-10-08T10:27:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research is an effort to study the writer’s attempt to record the history from below in Toni Morrison’s novel Home. In the novel, the writer has located the sites of subaltern silences through the troubles of poor Money family after WWII. The family moves to Georgia from Texas due to the fear of terrorist harassment and struggle due to poverty. The protagonist, Frank becomes the sole guardian of his sister, Cee after the death of their parents. Frank is enlisted to Korean War and Cee, always abused by her grandmother as a gutter child because her mother had given birth to her on a roadside during their journey to Georgia. She elopes with a wastrel boy called Prince. Frank has to travel again to Georgia after the war to save his sister when he has got a letter informing him that Cee was in danger. In the course of his journey, he has to face the hegemony of the fathers of church, the hospitals. He has to witness how the elite doctor named Beauregard has ruined the reproductive ability of his poor sister working as his assistant, in the name of an experiment of the eugenics. Cee is later rescued and saved by the traditional medicine based on the love and nature. Critiquing the neo-colonial elitist discourses of church, hospitals, wars, and eugenics, Morrison has valorized the cultural medicine system of the subalterns and has tried to recover the subaltern history in the novel. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/handle/20.500.14540/20335 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of English | en_US |
| dc.subject | Subaltern history | en_US |
| dc.subject | American society | en_US |
| dc.subject | English novel | en_US |
| dc.title | Subaltern Historiography in Morrison’s Home | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| local.academic.level | Masters | en_US |
| local.institute.title | Central Department of English | en_US |