How does Toni Morrison use language to represent race? Answering this question through literary
criticism and linguistic research this book shows how Morrison's language reflects the souls
of black folk in The Bluest Eye and Beloved . The book focuses on the way in which Morrison
forces language to reveal what cannot be spoken by a black grammar. To achieve the breaking of
this silence Morrison uses rhetoric voice and narrative structures not conventionally used
to achieve the effect of black English. Students and teachers of Toni Morrison's novels and
black English will find this book useful.
