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"Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known international scholars focusing on the author's literary production and including her very latest works--the theatrical production Desdemona and her tenth and latest novel, Home. These original contributions are among the first...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Seward, Adrienne Lanier, 1945- (Editor ), Tally, Justine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Temas:
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni > 1931-2019 > Crítica e interpretación
Morrison, Toni
LITERARY CRITICISM.
American / African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • The Buckeye
  • Part I: "This is where I belong"
  • "Dangerously Free": Morrison's Unspeakable Territory
  • Modernity and the Homeless: Toni Morrison and the Fictions of Modernism
  • Resurrecting the Dead Girl: Modernism and the Problem of History in Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise
  • To Make a Humanist Black: Toni Wofford's Howard Years
  • Part II: "Regrets, excuses, righteousness, false memory and future plans mixed together or stood like soldiers in line."
  • Trying to Get Home: Place and Memory in Toni Morrison's Fiction
  • The Pursuit of Memory
  • Personal and Cultural Memory in A Mercy
  • Love: An Elegy for the African American Community, or The Unintended Consequences of Desegregation/Integration
  • Part III: "Her garden was not Eden
  • it was so much more than that"
  • From Eden to Paradise: A Pilgrimage through Toni Morrison's Trilogy
  • "And the Greatest of These": Toni Morrison, the Bible, Love
  • Palimpsest: Reading John Winthrop through the Morrison Trilogy.
  • Magically Flying with Toni Morrison: Mexico, Gabriel García Márquez, Song of Solomon, and Sula
  • Part IV: "Now it seemed both fresh and ancient, safe and demanding"
  • Property and American Identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • Aeschylus, Euripides, and Toni Morrison: Miasma, Revenge, and Atonement
  • Toni Morrison's Performance of the Word in Song of Solomon: The Folkloric, the Fantastic, and "Some Old Folk's Lie"
  • "A Kind of Restoration": Psychogeographies of Healing in Toni Morrison's Home
  • Part V: "You can keep on writing but I think you ought to know what's true"
  • Aesthetic Activity.
  • "'There is the Power, ' he thought, 'right there'": Dramatizing Entropy in Tar Baby and Paradise
  • Telling Stories: Evolving Narrative Identity in Toni Morrison's Home
  • "Newness trembles me"? Representations of White Masculinity in Toni Morrison's A Mercy
  • The Sound of Change: A Musical Transit through the Wounded Modernity of Desdemona
  • Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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