Absurdism in Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye and Sula

Abstract

Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winning woman novelist on the canon of African American literature poignantly, shows the terrible reality in the lives of the blacks in general and black women in particular. The present paper detects the element of absurdism in her novels The Bluest Eye and Sula. Both of these novels delineates the suffering, humiliation and exploitation of the blacks in general and black women in particular. The blacks either males or females face the absurdity of life. They don't find any meaning in their lives.  Being black their life is absurd. The paper shows the meaningless existence of the blacks portrayed in the respected novels.