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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This dissertation appears in its current form due to the
assistance and guidance of several people. I would like to offer my
sincere thanks to them for their assistance and guidance has help
me during the whole period of study.
First and foremost I offer my sincerest gratitude to my
supervisor, Dr. Maria Luisa A. Valdez, who has supported me
though out my dissertation with her patience and knowledge whilst
allowing me the room to work in my own way. I attribute the level
of my PhD. degree to her encouragement and effort and without
her this research, too, would not have been completed or written.
One simply could not wish for a better or friendlier supervisor.
I owe my gratitude to Dr. Matilda H. Dimaano and The
Panels for their highly intellectual abilities to give excellent advises
and detailed review during the preparation of this study.
I would like to give expressions to my gratitude to all the
teachers of the Graduate School of Batangas State University of
the Philippines for their valuable lectures that inspire me to carry
out the research.



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I would like to seize this opportunity to thank the Philippines
Government which sends each time with the utmost willingness
skilful and qualified teachers to Thai Nguyen University. The
cooperation between the two countries should be a lesson for
other Asian countries to improve education and achieve
integration.
I am indebted to ITC, Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture
and Forestry of Thai Nguyen University for accepting me as a
PhD. Student and for your guidance and supports during the
course.
I greatly appreciate the financial assistance and spiritual
supports of Hung Vuong University, of Foreign Language
Department, of my dear colleagues and students for me and my
family during my PhD. study.
I am grateful to To Loan Nguyen and her family to help me in
the search of documents while they were in Germany.
My classmates, thank you very much for making the
atmosphere of our class as friendly as possible.



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I cannot finish without thanking my family. I warmly thank
and appreciate my parents for their encouragement and looking
after my children in the process of study.
I want to express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to
my lovely husband and two sweet daughters. without your
supports and encouragements, I could not have finished this work.
I can just say thank you all for everything.





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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE i
ABSTRACT .ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .iv
CHAPTER I .1
THE PROBLEM 1
Introduction 1
Statement of the Problem 10
Scope, Delimitation and Limitation of the Study 11
Significance of the Study .13
CHAPTER II 71
REVIEW OF LITERATURE: SYNTHESIS AND HYPOTHESIS .71
Conceptual Literature 71
Literature and Philosophy 71
Meaningful family life in Vietnam .77
Sociological and Philosophical Approaches in Literary Criticism 90
Toni Morrison and her Significant Works. .98
Research Literature .105
Frankl’s theory about Meaningfulness of life .116



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Conceptual Framework .124
Definition of Terms 125
CHAPTER III .130
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY .130
Research Design .130
Treatment of Materials 131
CHAPTER IV .135
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA 135
1.1. Racial oppression .136
1.1.1. Racial oppression in Song of Solomon .137
1.1.2. Racial Oppression in Tar Baby .142
1.2. Gender Inequality .146
1.2.1. Gender Inequality in Song of Solomon 146
1.2.2. Gender inequality in Tar Baby .160
1.3. Emotional Abandonment 172
1.3.1. Emotional abandonment in Song of Solomon .172
1.3.2. Emotional abandonment in Tar Baby .179
1.4. Women’s Sufferings .184
1.4.1. Women’s Sufferings in Songs of Solomon 184
1.4.2. Women’s Sufferings in Tar Baby 191



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2. Manifestations of the Sources of Strength and Motive of Women’s
Resistance 196
2.1. Manifestations of the Sources of Strength and Motive of Women’s
Resistance 198
2.1.1. Love between mother and children in Song of Solomon 199
2.1.2. Love between mother and children in Tar Baby 204
2.2. Sources of Strength and Motive of Women’s Resistance in term of
husband and wife 213
2.2.1. Sources of Strength and Motive of Women’s Resistance in term of
husband and wife in Song of Solomon .213
2.2.2. Sources of Strength and Motive of Women’s Resistance in term of
husband and wife in Tar Baby .219
2.3. Freedom and Equality 222
2.3.1. Freedom and Equality in Song of Solomon 222
2.4. Self-identity 227
2.4.1. Self-identity in Song of Solomon 227
3. Manner of Women in the world depicted in the Novels that Expresses
Resistance to the Different Forms of Oppression 243
3.1. Manner of Women in the world depicted in the Novels that Expresses
Resistance to the Different Forms of Oppression in Song of Solomon
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3.1.2. Manner of Women in the world depicted in the Novels that Expresses
Resistance to the Different Forms of Oppression in Tar Baby .252
4. The implications of the the themes pursued in the novels to the study
of meaningful family life among Vietnamese students 253
CHAPTER V 259
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 259
Summary .259
Findings .260
Conclusions .263
Recommendations 264
BIBLIOGRAPHY .267
Primary Sources 267
Secondary Sources .267