Religious Elements in the Novels of Emma Andiyevska and Toni Morrison

Abstract

The aim of the article is a characterization of Emma Andiyevska’s and Toni Morrison’s fic-tion in the context of religious elements present in the novels. In the course of an ideological and the-matic analysis of a few selected novelsthe features of the writers’ outlook and their individual ideolo-gies have been described and commented upon. Specific characteristics of their prose writing, the philosophical content and existential problems in their novels have been also identified. Both the Ukrainians and the Afro-Americans –despite the differences in their history –formed their national and cultural identity in the course of enslavementand suffering they had undergone in their past and this finds an expression in the novels of both authors under discussion. The conclusion points out that religion in its moral, psychological and symbolic aspects plays an important role in both Ukrainian and Afro-American cultures.