• The Racial Myth of Black Violence in Toni Morrison’s Novels

Pavitra Poorna S R

Abstract: Toni Morrison’snovels examine racial myths through the lens of verbal aggression. Toni Morrison explores the African American identity and focuses on the myths and slogans as examples of symbolic violence in the Žižekian tradition. In terms of methodology, this research examines the political discourse analysis, black-gendered feminism, and psychoanalysis of Slavoj Žižek’sideas on violence. New insights into ideology and violence emerge from merging psychoanalytic and political terminology. The purpose of this research is to investigate how the Black violence myth propagates the racist assumptions that Africans are inherently more aggressive and tolerant of pain than Europeans. To normalise the violence against non-European races and prevent the African subalterns from resisting the European incursions, the myths’ rhetoric serves as pseudo-ideologies, according to the study.