Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part K (2025)

Toni Morrison's fiction interrogates the Black female body as a politicized site of resistance, where corporeal experiences of trauma, desire, and agency intersect with the legacies of slavery, racism, and patriarchy. This paper analyzes this motif across three pivotal novels, The Bluest Eye (1970), Song of Solomon (1977), and Beloved (1987), to demonstrate how Morrison reclaims the body from objectification, transforming it into a locus of embodied consciousness and subversive power. In The Bluest Eye, Pecola's racialized corporeality exposes the violence of internalized standards, while Milkman's journey in Song of Solomon reveals the gendered body's role in matrilineal inheritance. Beloved culminates in Sethe's haunted flesh, where Rememory enacts corporeal reclamation against historical erasure. Informed by Black feminist scholarship from Audre Lorde and Hortense Spillers, alongside Morrison's essays, this study posits the Black female body as a radical archive of resistance, embodying not mere survival but a defiant politics of pleasure, pain, and possibility that challenges hegemonic narratives and fosters communal liberation.