Description

The book presents a pattern of how story is unfolded in Toni Morrison’s fiction. The concepts and formulations of Narratology have been used as a viable mode of studying fiction with respect to story-structure. A narrative pattern has been weaved out of Morrison’s storytelling with valuable insights into the other significant facets of narrative fiction including presentational modes of time, character and the perspective or the point of view from which story is narrated. Narratology allows one to focus on how Morrison’s peculiar use of narrative techniques accord a special hallmark status to her fiction.

ABOT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Shivani Sharma is an assiduous teacher fully devoted to her vocation. She was born in Delhi and brought up in Himachal Pradesh. Her father is a retired Planning Officer from Public Works Department in the Government of Himachal Pradesh and her mother was a house maker. She got her school education from St. Mary’s Convent School, Kasauli and St. Luke’s School Solan. She did her higher education from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla and was awarded Ph.D for her research in the area of African-American Literature. She has published many research papers in different fields of literature.

Presently, the author is working as Associate Professor in Government College Solan in Himachal Pradesh. She has fifteen years of teaching experience in different Government Colleges in Himachal Pradesh. Her writings are reflection of her vast teaching experience in the different institutions and her understanding of the society acquired while working in the far flung areas of the State. Her thought provoking and revolutionary ideas demystify the traditional rhetorics and tricks of the trade dominated by votaries of the western literary standards.