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    Representation of violence in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye in line with the new historicism
    (Selçuk Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024) Arslan, Dilek; Yeğin, Fatma Kalpaklı
    Violence is a critical social problem to be addressed in society. Violence, which affects humans severely, can be seen among people from all walks of life everywhere. No matter how unacceptable it is, the majority of people cannot avoid themselves from committing violence and most of the people cannot escape from being exposed to violence. One of the societies where violence is seen frequently is African Americans. In point of fact, violence in African American society dates back to old slavery times, and it is associated directly with racism, as well. Moreover, during the Jim Crow Era, Afro-American people experienced unbearable inequalities and discrimination. During their fight against discrimination, they had a lot number of casualties in the American Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Afro-Americans were unfairly killed and wounded. In particular, being women in the Afro-American community was double jeopardy, as they were both women and black. Consequently, black women experienced gender-based violence. Violence is explicitly apparent in the societies described in The Bluest Eye and The Color Purple, as well. Women characters are severely exposed to violence in these books. Furthermore, gender-based violence may be categorized as physical, psychological, and sexual violence. In this study, the purpose is to investigate the gender-based representation of the physical, psychological, and sexual violence in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and in Alice Walker's The Color Purple consistent with the new historicism. Both Toni Morrison and Alice Walker are worldwide known Afro-American authors, who describe the problems of Afro-American characters in The Bluest Eye and The Color Purple. These novels reflect the violence that Afro-American people exposed to. In this society, the violence is seen as a common problem; people encounter several challenges and try to survive. Violence is common in both novels; however, the course of events affects the characters differently. The protagonist of The Bluest Eye, Pecola, as a child can only pray to God for the solution to the violence around her, cannot fight against violence, and goes mad at the end; on the other hand, the protagonist of The Color Purple, Celie, struggles against violence, becomes strong, and escapes from violence in the end. Alice Walker's concept of womanism's reflection can be seen at the end of The Color Purple in terms of the women's emancipation. As a matter of fact, with the intention of demonstrating the violence problems more effectively in The Bluest Eye and The Color Purple, the novels are investigated in their social, cultural, historical, or political context within the framework of the new historicism movement. Accordingly, this study aims to explore the representation of violence in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple in line with the new historicism.