Toni Morrison’s Depiction of Beauty Standards in Relation to Class, Politics of Respectability, and Consumerism in Song of Solomon
In Song of Solomon, published during a transitional moment in the history of U.S. feminism, Toni Morrison portrays the destructive forces of hegemonic female beauty standards, materialism, and consumerism in a Midwestern African-American community from the 1930s to the 1960s. She reveals a hierarchy...
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ScholarWorks@UNO
2013
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| Online Access: | http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1743 http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2825&context=td |