Flash back in modern fiction

On first consideration, African American author Toni Morrison might seem to have a little in common with Virginia Woolf the famous British writer. But the interesting fact is that Morrison wrote her M.A thesis on Woolf and William Faulkner. Morrison and Woolf wrote about so many common themes as: freedom, isolation, feminist matters etc...They used difficult and complex techniques in order to express how important and complicated those themes are indeed and to …

…induced by them in today's society are less critical than they have been in the past, they are still very large problems and these great novels give us a better look into humanity; now and then , what it means to be human, not male or female, not white or black, but simply human. Among many other technical devices, flashback stands out as the most ingenious tool to portray the ceaseless rapport between past and present.