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Harriet Jacobs, who is one of the important Afro-American literature writers, described the difficulties that she and her black society faced as a black person in her autobiographical work Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(1861). Another important writer, Toni Morrison, drew attention to their own life by dealing with the experiences of a black woman in her work, which was called Beloved(1987). These two works, which form the basis of the study, have been interpreted with the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model that was developed by Teun van Dijk. First of all, the ideological discourse area in the selected works was created through this model. The activities, aims, rules, relations and resources of the “In Group” and “Out Group” actors are presented as diagrams. Thus, both works are showed to the reader in a comparative way with their main details. In order to reveal the ideological discourse of the study, the examples that identified in both works are detailed under the titles of “Subjects”, “Actors”, “Details”, “Negation”, “Evidentiality”, “Repetition”, “Irony” and “Similarities”. The definitions of the notions were explained with the foreign books. It was created a basis for an easier understanding of the examples. At the end of the study, it was determined that the selected two writers from the Afro-American literature discussed the same topics and criticized the same phenomenon as ideological discourse. The study is important in terms of the applicability of Teun van Dijk’s theory. Because it is not only used in the interpretation of the news texts, but also in the interpretation of literary texts. With the ideological discourse analysis method, it is possible to reveal the main topic in the examined work. In addition, the messages that the works want to emphasize can be detailed with the examples in subtitles. For this reason, the study aims to be a new example especially for literature studies.

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