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Complexities of Progenitorship in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child


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1 Bharathiar University Post Graduate Extension and Research Centre, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
 

This study focuses on the struggle and importance of mother in the life of an individual. Mothering is very difficult than fathering. Father plays a minimalistic role and it is the mother, whose part is vital in the upbringing of a child. It attests the pathetic and single mother Sweetness’ struggle to raise her daughter Lula Ann Bridewell without physical and emotional oppression. Her strict brought up thus makes her daughter to attain the sense of selfhood and confidence.

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Confidence, Individual, Mothering, Oppression, Struggle.
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  • Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child. Vintage Books, 2015.
  • Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. W. W. Norton and Company, 1976.

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D. Geetha
Bharathiar University Post Graduate Extension and Research Centre, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
S. Suganya
Bharathiar University Post Graduate Extension and Research Centre, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


This study focuses on the struggle and importance of mother in the life of an individual. Mothering is very difficult than fathering. Father plays a minimalistic role and it is the mother, whose part is vital in the upbringing of a child. It attests the pathetic and single mother Sweetness’ struggle to raise her daughter Lula Ann Bridewell without physical and emotional oppression. Her strict brought up thus makes her daughter to attain the sense of selfhood and confidence.

Keywords


Confidence, Individual, Mothering, Oppression, Struggle.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15613/hijrh%2F2022%2Fv9i1%2F213621