Alice Walker And Morrison's View Of Oppression

Alice Walker and Toni Morrison are two prominent African-American female writers. Both their stories reflect their concerns with racial, sexual, and political issues—particularly the subject of oppression. Oppression runs through our language and will shape the way we act and do things in our culture. They are built around what is understood to be the norms in our society. A norm signifies what is acceptable and desirable. It is also a given position of dominance, privilege and power over what is defined as non-dominant, abnormal and therefore invaluable. They usually produce rules that define what is normal and what is not normal.
Walker and Morrison portrayed oppression through writing. In “Everyday Use” the narrator is Mama, who is the