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In her works, Beloved and A Mercy , Toni Morrison considers both pre-slavery and post -slavery Af... more In her works, Beloved and A Mercy , Toni Morrison considers both pre-slavery and post -slavery African-American community in which people suffer physically and psychologically from the dominant culture; especially women, who learn to heal themselves with sharing stories of their traumatic life. Female solidarity also empowers the female protagonists to establish their own identity. Wrath and violence are steady motifs thro ughout the novels, and Morrison exposes the dangers of manhood that relies on violence and oppr ession. Slavery, class and gender inequity, betrayal, and brutality are described through the l ives of the novel’s characters.

This paper attempts at studying Gloria Naylor’s two works, The Women of Brewster Place and Mama D... more This paper attempts at studying Gloria Naylor’s two works, The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day through Black Feminist Perspectives in order to discuss motherhood and its connections to African models of female leadership. It indicates Naylor’s different viewpoints in these two novels: the first novel tries to show obsessed women who suffer in male-dominated society and a strong bond which keeps them alive. These women are in a constant state of struggle in their lives to find their identities. In the second novel, natural forces and ancestral powers connect these women together. Brewster Place offers women close relationship with each other and Willow Springs offers a setting for a healing community with roots in female folk tradition and nature. However, these black women take refuge in cooperating and feeling sympathy for each other to assuage their sufferings and to find a way for their plight in dire and desperate situations through an intimate relationship, sharing their e...

Jazz is told by contradictory, multiple narrative voices. Instead of giving the reader one omnisc... more Jazz is told by contradictory, multiple narrative voices. Instead of giving the reader one omniscient narrator, Toni Morrison chooses to use two narrators: One gossipy, overtly hostile voice which presents itself as omniscient; admitting only towards the end of the text to have based all of its’ conclusions on what it can observe (Jazz 220-1); And another narrative voice which often follows closely on the heels of the first, makes no claims to complete knowledge, involves no insults to the characters, yet is involved in framing most of their conversations, thoughts and feelings. Both the open ‘flourish’ of the first narrator on the one hand, and the “complicated and inaccessible” insights of the second narrator, on the other hand, concurrently comprise the jazz music of Jazz (1). To create an omniscient narrator who is both first-person and third-person omniscient is jazz-like because this combination “symbolize an incredible kind of improvisation” (Micucci 275). We can say that Mor...

International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research

Accent, rhythm, and intonation are significant features of the English language. The Intelligibil... more Accent, rhythm, and intonation are significant features of the English language. The Intelligibility of EFL learners' speech is largely affected for lack of knowledge of correct use (or no use) of these suprasegmental features in the oral production of English. The pre-university EFL curriculum in Saudi Arabia ignores the teaching of suprasegmental features, whereas training in suprasegmental features should be an essential aspect of EFL teaching. Metrical poetry can be used as a practical medium to teach accent, rhythm, and intonation in speech. The twofold objectives of the present research were (i) to test the efficacy of metrical poetry used as a medium to teach accent, rhythm, and intonation in English, and (ii) to argue for the inclusion of training in suprasegmental features of speech in the Saudi EFL curricula, either as a separate unit or as a larger section in the current prescribed books. In a quasi-experimental study conducted at a Saudi university, a randomly selected group of 60 undergraduate EFL learners were given training in accent, rhythm, and intonation in connected speech using metrical, rhymed poetry, over a period of three weeks. A comparative analysis of the participants' pre-and post-test speech samples revealed that learners made noteworthy progress in their accent, rhythm, and intonation in connected speech.

International Journal of English and Education, 2012

In her works, Beloved and A Mercy, Toni Morrison considers both pre-slavery and post-slavery Afri... more In her works, Beloved and A Mercy, Toni Morrison considers both pre-slavery and post-slavery African-American community in which people suffer physically and psychologically from the dominant culture; especially women, who learn to heal themselves with sharing stories of their traumatic life. Female solidarity also empowers the female protagonists to establish their own identity. Wrath and violence are steady motifs throughout the novels, and Morrison exposes the dangers of manhood that relies on violence and oppression. Slavery, class and gender inequity, betrayal, and brutality are described through the lives of the novel's characters.

Language in India, Feb 2012

Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1988) highlights the importance of confronting, reclaiming and transform... more Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1988) highlights the importance of confronting, reclaiming and transforming history, and it points to the healing potential of memory. In her novel, Morrison shows what slavery did to black people bodies and minds; what it meant for them to be owned by
somebody else as well as the difficulties of claiming ownership of oneself. What is very specific for this story is the mark of alienation that slavery left for African-Americans. Morrison rewrites the life of the historical figure Margaret Garner (1856), who killed her child to prevent her recapture into slavery. John Hope Franklin describes the way that Slave Codes embodied the repressive culture of slavery, almost completely denying personal wholeness (124). These laws forbade marriage, free mobility, self-defence, and a host of other activities among slaves.

Journal of Social Sciences, 2011

This paper attempts at studying Gloria Naylor’s two works, The Women of Brewster Place and Mama D... more This paper attempts at studying Gloria Naylor’s two works, The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day through Black Feminist Perspectives in order to discuss motherhood and its connections to African models of female leadership. It indicates Naylor’s different viewpoints in these two novels: the first novel tries to show obsessed women who suffer in male-dominated society and a strong bond which keeps them alive. These women are in a
constant state of struggle in their lives to find their identities. In the second novel, natural forces and ancestral powers connect these women together. Brewster Place offers women close relationship with each other and Willow Springs offers a setting for a healing community with roots in female folk tradition and nature. However, these black women
take refuge in cooperating and feeling sympathy for each other to assuage their sufferings and to find a way for their plight in dire and desperate situations through an intimate relationship, sharing their experiences with each other and using powers of intuition and nature.

The Criterion: An International Journal in English, 2011

The Criterion: An International Journal in English, 2011

In her works, Beloved and A Mercy , Toni Morrison considers both pre-slavery and post -slavery Af... more In her works, Beloved and A Mercy , Toni Morrison considers both pre-slavery and post -slavery African-American community in which people suffer physically and psychologically from the dominant culture; especially women, who learn to heal themselves with sharing stories of their traumatic life. Female solidarity also empowers the female protagonists to establish their own identity. Wrath and violence are steady motifs thro ughout the novels, and Morrison exposes the dangers of manhood that relies on violence and oppr ession. Slavery, class and gender inequity, betrayal, and brutality are described through the l ives of the novel’s characters.

This paper attempts at studying Gloria Naylor’s two works, The Women of Brewster Place and Mama D... more This paper attempts at studying Gloria Naylor’s two works, The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day through Black Feminist Perspectives in order to discuss motherhood and its connections to African models of female leadership. It indicates Naylor’s different viewpoints in these two novels: the first novel tries to show obsessed women who suffer in male-dominated society and a strong bond which keeps them alive. These women are in a constant state of struggle in their lives to find their identities. In the second novel, natural forces and ancestral powers connect these women together. Brewster Place offers women close relationship with each other and Willow Springs offers a setting for a healing community with roots in female folk tradition and nature. However, these black women take refuge in cooperating and feeling sympathy for each other to assuage their sufferings and to find a way for their plight in dire and desperate situations through an intimate relationship, sharing their e...

Jazz is told by contradictory, multiple narrative voices. Instead of giving the reader one omnisc... more Jazz is told by contradictory, multiple narrative voices. Instead of giving the reader one omniscient narrator, Toni Morrison chooses to use two narrators: One gossipy, overtly hostile voice which presents itself as omniscient; admitting only towards the end of the text to have based all of its’ conclusions on what it can observe (Jazz 220-1); And another narrative voice which often follows closely on the heels of the first, makes no claims to complete knowledge, involves no insults to the characters, yet is involved in framing most of their conversations, thoughts and feelings. Both the open ‘flourish’ of the first narrator on the one hand, and the “complicated and inaccessible” insights of the second narrator, on the other hand, concurrently comprise the jazz music of Jazz (1). To create an omniscient narrator who is both first-person and third-person omniscient is jazz-like because this combination “symbolize an incredible kind of improvisation” (Micucci 275). We can say that Mor...

International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research

Accent, rhythm, and intonation are significant features of the English language. The Intelligibil... more Accent, rhythm, and intonation are significant features of the English language. The Intelligibility of EFL learners' speech is largely affected for lack of knowledge of correct use (or no use) of these suprasegmental features in the oral production of English. The pre-university EFL curriculum in Saudi Arabia ignores the teaching of suprasegmental features, whereas training in suprasegmental features should be an essential aspect of EFL teaching. Metrical poetry can be used as a practical medium to teach accent, rhythm, and intonation in speech. The twofold objectives of the present research were (i) to test the efficacy of metrical poetry used as a medium to teach accent, rhythm, and intonation in English, and (ii) to argue for the inclusion of training in suprasegmental features of speech in the Saudi EFL curricula, either as a separate unit or as a larger section in the current prescribed books. In a quasi-experimental study conducted at a Saudi university, a randomly selected group of 60 undergraduate EFL learners were given training in accent, rhythm, and intonation in connected speech using metrical, rhymed poetry, over a period of three weeks. A comparative analysis of the participants' pre-and post-test speech samples revealed that learners made noteworthy progress in their accent, rhythm, and intonation in connected speech.

International Journal of English and Education, 2012

In her works, Beloved and A Mercy, Toni Morrison considers both pre-slavery and post-slavery Afri... more In her works, Beloved and A Mercy, Toni Morrison considers both pre-slavery and post-slavery African-American community in which people suffer physically and psychologically from the dominant culture; especially women, who learn to heal themselves with sharing stories of their traumatic life. Female solidarity also empowers the female protagonists to establish their own identity. Wrath and violence are steady motifs throughout the novels, and Morrison exposes the dangers of manhood that relies on violence and oppression. Slavery, class and gender inequity, betrayal, and brutality are described through the lives of the novel's characters.

Language in India, Feb 2012

Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1988) highlights the importance of confronting, reclaiming and transform... more Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1988) highlights the importance of confronting, reclaiming and transforming history, and it points to the healing potential of memory. In her novel, Morrison shows what slavery did to black people bodies and minds; what it meant for them to be owned by
somebody else as well as the difficulties of claiming ownership of oneself. What is very specific for this story is the mark of alienation that slavery left for African-Americans. Morrison rewrites the life of the historical figure Margaret Garner (1856), who killed her child to prevent her recapture into slavery. John Hope Franklin describes the way that Slave Codes embodied the repressive culture of slavery, almost completely denying personal wholeness (124). These laws forbade marriage, free mobility, self-defence, and a host of other activities among slaves.

Journal of Social Sciences, 2011

This paper attempts at studying Gloria Naylor’s two works, The Women of Brewster Place and Mama D... more This paper attempts at studying Gloria Naylor’s two works, The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day through Black Feminist Perspectives in order to discuss motherhood and its connections to African models of female leadership. It indicates Naylor’s different viewpoints in these two novels: the first novel tries to show obsessed women who suffer in male-dominated society and a strong bond which keeps them alive. These women are in a
constant state of struggle in their lives to find their identities. In the second novel, natural forces and ancestral powers connect these women together. Brewster Place offers women close relationship with each other and Willow Springs offers a setting for a healing community with roots in female folk tradition and nature. However, these black women
take refuge in cooperating and feeling sympathy for each other to assuage their sufferings and to find a way for their plight in dire and desperate situations through an intimate relationship, sharing their experiences with each other and using powers of intuition and nature.

The Criterion: An International Journal in English, 2011

The Criterion: An International Journal in English, 2011