Zadmehr Torabi

Study of Voice in Toni Morrison’s Black Feminist The Bluest Eye, Beloved and Paradise

By using fluid and unconventional literary styles, feminist theorists and writers tackle the patriarchal understandings about ''femaleness''. Luce Irigaray‘s This Sex Which Is Not One (1985) and Hélène Cixous‘s essay ''The Laugh of the Medusa'' (1976) are outstanding instances of this theoretical writing. These feminist writers ''have been known for attempting to radically subvert masculine expressions through styles of writing thought to reflect a biologically centered notion of female difference'' (Lind 444). This paper studies Morrison‘s black feminist voice in The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Paradise.