Relationship Between Mothers and Daughters in Toni...
PS 20th century American Family in Fiction Summer 2012 Professor Tara E.
Friedman
Relationship between mothers and daughters in Toni Morrison s Recitatif
Karolin Lattisch BrinkstraГ џe 3 17489 Greifswald Lehramt Gym Eng/ Ru 128126 6th
semester
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Contents
1.
Introduction
1 2 4 5 7 10 11 13 14
1.1 The author Toni Morrison 2. 3. Introducing Recitatif Relationship between
mothers and daughters
3.1 Relationship between Twyla and her mother 3.2 Relationship between Roberta
and her mother 3.3 Role of Maggie 4. Conclusion
Sources
1. Introduction Although Toni Morrison is best known for African American
literature, I do not want to put all my focus on this topic. The short story Recitatif
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Even nowadays they have a stable relationship (Li 6). Needless to say that after
growing up in a stable and big family, Toni Morrison started her own family. In
1958 she married Harold Morrison from Jamaica and in 1961 her first son, Harold
Ford, was born. In summer 1964 the family took a trip to Europe, but Chloe Morrison
returned alone with her three year2
old son and got divorced shortly after. Till today she does not want to tell detailed
reasons why the relationship did not last. Temporarily she returned to her family in
Lorain, where her second son, Slade Kevin, was born (Tewarson 37). She always
took her role as a mother very seriously and tried to raise her two sons to become
independent and sensitive human beings. She passed care and emotional support,
which she got from her own family, to their children. Writing, working and child
caring were not always easy, but she had to get used to the fact that she could only
write in small pieces. Consequently she developed a huge power to concentrate
(Tewarson 49). Surprisingly she found her role as a mother liberating, because her
children asked for other things than others . For example managing things and
showing a good sense of humor. The person that was in me that I liked best was the