Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Origin ofthe Study
1.2 Maternal Love as a Trope
1.3 Morrison's Black Feminist Thinking
1.4 Format Ofthe Research
Chapter Two Cultural Dispossession
2.1 Pauline:A Victim of the White Norms of Beauty
2.2 Geraldine and Helene:Loss of the“Funk”
2.3 Ruth:A Prisoner of the Patriarchal House
Chapter Three Cultural Estrangement
3.1 Sula:ARebelAgainsttheMaternal
3.2 Jadine:A Cultural Orphan of Women’s
“Ancient Properties”
3.3 Lack of Culture—Bearing Maternal Love
Chapter Four Cultural Resistance
4.1 Eva’s Maternal Love and Pain:A Story Failed to
Pass on
4.2 Recovering a History of Cultural Deprivation
4.3 Sethe’s Reclamation ofMatemal Love and Resistance
Against Slavery:A Story Designated to Pass on
Chapter Five Cultural Healing
5.1 Reclaiming the“Ancient Properties”and Healing
of Historical Trauma
5.2 Exorcism of the Racist Ghosts Through
Reconciliation and Self-Love
5.3 From Individual Healing to Communal Healing
Chapter Six Conclusion
Bibliography
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