Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Love and narrative form
  • Maternal language and maternal history in Beloved
  • Riffing on love and playing with narration in Jazz
  • Displacement
  • political, psychic, and textual
  • in Paradise
  • Love's time and the reader: ethical effects of nachträglichkeit (belatedness) in Love
  • Failed messages, maternal loss, and narrative form in A mercy
  • Severed limbs, the uncanny, and the return of the repressed in Home
  • Love, trauma, and the body in God help the child
  • Conclusion: Revisioning love and slavery.