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Abstract
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This study examines the impact of displacement, silenced voices, and trauma on the protagonists in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Home, and God Help the Child. Despite extensive scholarship on Morrison, there is limited analysis applying the Hero’s Journey framework to her depiction of fractured identities and historical trauma. The Research is significant because it demonstrates how Morrison reconfigures the traditional hero narrative within African-American contexts marked by racial trauma and marginalization. It also highlights how her postmodern storytelling techniques expose and challenge systems that suppress individual and communal agency. The objectives of this study are to analyze how the protagonists navigate trauma and displacement through the lens of the Hero’s Journey. It also examines how Morisson gives narrative presence to Silenced characters, illuminating processes of healing, resilience, and identity reconstruction in African-American Communities.
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