الفهرس 
FeminismOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The thesis exammes some of the womanist Issues ill Morrison’s two novels, The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1974). The two novels are arranged in chronological order to view the development of the womanist tenets in Morrison’s works. My objective is to use the various definitions of womanism by African- American women writers such as Alice Walker and Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi as a critical framework to approach these novels. The thesis IS divided into three chapters. Chapter one ”Introduction,” examines the historical development of the term ”womanism.” Then a number of definitions of the term ”womanism” are provided, and in the process I point out how much Morrison is expressive of its tenets. Chapter two, ”The Bluest Eye: The Representation of Women,” discusses Morrison’s first novel and examines how Morrison writes as an African-American woman with the audience of African-American women in mind, which is a typical womanist approach. Chapter three, ”The Representation of Women in Sula,” deals with Morrison’s second novel and discusses how Morrison’s womanist ideas develop. from a womanist point of view, Sula goes in line with Morrison’s other novels in having women as the main protagonists. Then my conclusion states that throughout her novels, Morrison urges African-American women to confront their reality, their denied and buried history, and their present circumstances. Her writing is an act of reclamation, enabling African-American women to recover themselves and to be whole.