La teología liberadora de Toni Morrison frente a las religiones institucionales como opción ética de sanación espiritual

Abstract

Detailed precision of the historiographical construction of slavery as the main thematical axis of Toni Morrison’s (Nobel Laureate 1993) American contemporary fiction is demonstrated through the study of a secondary character in Beloved (1987). This research is amplified retrospectively from 19th backwards 17th c. by the inclusion of A Mercy (2008). The method is contrastive analysis based upon close reading from a critical ethical perspective. The main point of interest is the genesis and primal evolution of the African-American Church as the institution of a specific ethnic group and how this is intimately related to Afroamerican processes for the gestation of freedom and Civil Rights, with a strong emphasis on feminine participation. The emergence of an Afroamerican theology is validated as a spiritual healing route reachable and recognizable even in our present age.