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The (Im)Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison's Novels
2017. urn:nbn:hr:142:425288
Mautner, Nina
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Mautner, N. (2017). The (Im)Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison's Novels (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:425288

Mautner, Nina. "The (Im)Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison's Novels." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:425288

Mautner, Nina. "The (Im)Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison's Novels." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:425288

Mautner, N. (2017). 'The (Im)Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison's Novels', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 26 February 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:425288

Mautner N. The (Im)Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison's Novels [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2017 [cited 2025 February 26] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:425288

N. Mautner, "The (Im)Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison's Novels", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2017. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:425288

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TitleThe (Im)Possibility of Healing in Toni Morrison's Novels
Title (croatian)(Ne)mogućnost ozdravljenja u romanima Toni Morrison
AuthorNina Mautner
MentorJasna Poljak Rehlicki (mentor)
Committee memberJasna Poljak Rehlicki (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberJadranka Zlomislić (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberLjubica Matek (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2017-09-06, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper uses Frankl’s logotherapy for the analysis of Toni Morrison’s novels and their protagonists in The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and A Mercy. The different traumatic events make Morrison’s novels suitable for logotherapeutic reading and analysis. Morrison’s way of presenting slavery and identity issues are in accordance to Frankl’s presentation of oppressed prisoners in concentration camps and introducing the ultimate meaning in the most difficult situations. The first part of the paper focuses on the definition of literature of trauma based on the intertextual contacts between Frankl’s and Morrison’s writing. The second part presents Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning and logotherapy as the source for the analysis. The third part examines literary subjects based on Frankl’s experience in the camp, through shock, relative apathy, and the psychology of the prisoners after trauma. The fourth part of the paper presents the possibility of finding meaning in life and the pathways to meaning taken by the protagonists. The paper concludes with Frankl’s tragic optimism, observing literary subjects in the light of the tragic triad; pain, guilt, and death, and how and if they managed to find the ultimate meaning and purpose in life by turning their suffering into achievement, changing themselves, and taking responsible actions.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:425288
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Croatian Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Research Studies
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra hrvatskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra hrvatskog jezika i književnosti)
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