Uhlyay L. Psychologism of Toni Morrison's Prose

The research is devoted to the investigation of psychologism in prose writing of Toni Morrison - the African-American novelist - in order to clarify the specificity of her worldview and determine her place in the global literary process. The work contains an attempt to analyze systematically Toni Morrison's texts through the prism of psychologism, to outline the prominent genre and thematic bases of her novels, to define the specifics of her artistic representation of characters in crisis situations at a certain historical period, to disclose the philosophical and ideological content of her novels. Peculiarities of psychologism in Toni Morrison's prose ("The Bluest Eye", "Sula", "Song of Solomon", "Tar Baby", "Beloved", "Jazz", "Paradise", "Love", "A Mercy", "Home", "God Help the Child") are disclosed in aspects of aesthetic expression of evolution of images under crisis conditions, symbolism, interaction of real and unreal, intertextual links of her novels relative to each other and also to the novels of such prominent feminist writers of the USA as H. Beecher Stowe and A. Walker.