الفهرس Only 14 pages are availabe for public view
 |  | from | 274 |  |  |
| | | from | 274 | | |
Abstract
The dissertation discusses the victimization and protest in selected novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Throughout the selected novels, the aim of the study is to spotlight on the characters’ sufferings from many forms of victimization which are physical, psychological, semantic (verbal) and sexual as well as their attempts to protest against all of these forms of vulnerability are manipulated in details.
The thesis is divided into three chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. The introduction introduces a detailed survey of the Afro-Americans’ history from immigration till the present day. Chapter one provides an overview of Ralph Ellison’s first and sole novel Invisible Man (1952). Whereas, chapter two discuses Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) which investigates the victimization of ex-slaves during the Reconstruction era. Finally, chapter three investigates Alice Walker’s The Color Purple(1992) which revolves around the sufferings of black women within the societies of paternity and partiality. The conclusion sums up the results that the researcher discovers through the manipulation of the three selected novels. It also investigates the similarities and dissimilarities between the literarily, thematically and technically manipulations of the three novelists. Finally, it asserts that the characters’ desire to protest distinguishes the Afro-American race and leads them to their advancement.