The Master Narrative Defined

Master Narrative - Toni Morrison
WHAT IS THE MASTER NARRATIVE?

During a Bill Moyers interview with Toni Morrison in March of 1990 for his television series "A World of Ideas", Morrison explores her definition of the master narrative:

MOYERS: I don’t think I’ve ever met a more pathetic character in modern literature than Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye.

MORRISON: She has surrendered completely to the so-called “Master Narrative,” the whole notion of what is ugliness, what is worthlessness. She got it from her family; she got it from school; she got it from the movies; she got it from everywhere.

MOYERS: The Master Narrative . . . what is . . . that’s life.

MORRISON: No. It’s white male life. The Master Narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else: The Master Fiction . . . history. It has a certain point of view.

DISRUPTING THE MASTER NARRATIVE

Structural violence in its multiple contemporary mutations and forms is destructive to the psyche and our collective consciousness.

CHROMATIC BLACK SEEKS TO DISRUPT THE MASTER NARRATIVE THROUGH GOOD STORYTELLING.

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