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Spectrality in the novels of Toni Morrison /

At first glance, Beloved would appear to be the only "ghost story" among Toni Morrison's nine novels, but as this provocative new study shows, spectral presences and places abound in the celebrated author's fiction. Melanie R. Anderson explores how Morrison uses specters to bring...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Melanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2013.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "What does it mean to follow a ghost" in Toni Morrison's fiction?
  • Spectral beginnings in The bluest eye and Sula
  • "Why not ghosts as well?" the presence of the spectral in song of solomon and tar baby
  • "What would be on the other side?" history as a spectral bridge in Beloved and Paradise
  • "The specter as possibility": ghostly narrators in Jazz and Love
  • "Slave. Free. I last": spectral returns in A mercy.