“THE STREETS DON’T GO THERE”: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MYTH OF THE MALE AND FEMALE SUBJECTION IN TONI MORRISON’S LOVE

Abstract

Abstract A lot of scholarship has been produced on the subjugation of black people in the USA. However, the social and cultural constraints imposed on females in these black communities characterized by the social construct of the male’s myth has drawn, so far, much less attention. This article deals with the portrayal of male domination in the black communities of the mid- 20th century in Toni Morrison’s Love. It analyzes the novel’s representation of the various psychological and cultural mechanisms that sustain and nurture phallocracy in African American communities. Through the literary approach of Feminism, this paper purports to make an advocacy for social equality and justice for African American females.