Toni Morrison, through her voluminous and complex novel, Paradise (1997) deconstructs the Christian notion of heaven and hell; and substantiates that the original sin is not always disobedience, as too much obedience hampers growth and produces stunted minds. She suggests through the novel that human experience is more meaningful and truthful than any ethnocentric fallacy. The present paper is an endeavor to study how the African-American writer embraces the postmodernist stance to challenge the Christian Ethnocentrism as well as Black Patriarchy in the novel. The Nobel Laureate Toni Morrisoncriticizes the hegemonic paradigm of philosophizing everything and dividing the entire world between the binaries like good and evil, moral and immoral, right and wrong, faith and skepticism, male and female, etc. She refers indirectly to Moral Relativism and puts forth the point that real liberalism paves the path to experience paradise on this very earthly earth. Another point discussed in the paper is the author’s sensitivity about the issue of the discriminatory treatment given to black women by black men and refers to the biased attitude shown towards black women during the Civil Rights Movement. The novel is a comment on the patriarchal trends shown during the Civil Rights Movement. The black women of the United States of America faced gender-discrimination in the hands of the black men during the movement. It is noticeable that the one of the major reasons of the origin of the Black Feminist Movement has been the marginalization of black women as well as issues related to them in the Civil Rights Movement
