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Toni Morrison : Paradise, Love, A mercy /
<I>Toni Morrison</i> features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels (<i>Paradise</i>, <i>Love</i>, <i>A Mercy</...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Grace and Gravity of Toni Morrison, Lucille P. Fultz ; Toni Morrison in the international context; Chloe Ardelia Wofford/Chloe Anthony Wofford/Toni Morrison; The grace and gravity of Morrison's fiction; Sentient artistry; Daunting narratives; The issue of language; Grace in language; Love and the discourse of nostalgia; The gravity; Part I Paradise
- 2 Separate Spheres?: The Appropriation of Female Space in Paradise, Shirley A. Stave Ruby as the death of the mother; Public versus private spheres in Ruby; Dogmatic patriarchy; The Convent as private sphere; Controlling the Symbolic Order; Excess and the feminine; Uniting the spheres; 3 The Working Through of the Disconsolate: Transformative Spirituality in Paradise, Gurleen Grewal
- Recovering from trauma: "Acting out" and "working through"The meaning of home; The spiritual healer's journey; Conclusion: Paradise at home; 4 Reclaiming the Presence of the Marginalized: Silence, Violence, and Nature in Paradise, Aoi Mori ; Introduction: Historical excavation; Rewriting history; Violence as the flaw of historical exclusiveness; Exposing the family tree; The reversal of binary oppositions; Revisions of Pieta; Recovery of transgressive women and ecocritical reading
- Nature, violence, and genderOrganic farming and the transcendence of dichotomies; Conclusion: The Convent garden and rebirth; Part II Love ; 5 "Some to Hold, Some to Tell": Secrets and the Trope of Silence in Love, Carolyn Denard ; Morrison's treatment of silence; Silence in L ove; The opening lament; Significations on silence; The silence of secrets; Conclusion
- 6 Power and Betrayal: Social Hierarchies and the Trauma of Loss in Love, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber "Othering" and cultural hierarchies; Love's community; Relating through hatred and trauma; The rebirth of love and the naming of desire; Conclusion; 7 The Power in "Yes": Pleasure, Dominion, and Conceptual Doubling in Love, Herman Beavers ; The attributes of power; Love and the critique of pleasure