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Toni Morrison : Paradise, Love, A mercy /

"Toni Morrison 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 (Paradise, Love, A Mercy) the contributors to this volume revisit issues that continue to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fultz, Lucille P., 1937- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Series:Bloomsbury studies in contemporary North American fiction.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The grace and gravity of Toni Morrison / Lucille P. Fultz
  • Separate spheres?: The appropriation of female space in Paradise / Shirley A. Stave
  • The working through of the disconsolate: transformative spirituality in Paradise / Gurleen Grewal
  • Reclaiming the presence of the marginalized: silence, violence, and nature in Paradise / Aoi Mori
  • "Some to hold, some to tell": secrets and the trope of silence in Love / Carolyn Denard
  • Power and betrayal: social hierarchies and the trauma of loss in Love / Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber
  • The power in "yes": pleasure, dominion, and conceptual doubling in Love / Herman Beavers
  • Narrative epistemology: storytelling as agency in A mercy / Jami Carlacio
  • "What lay beneath the names": the language and landscapes of A mercy / Marc C. Conner
  • Visions and revisions of American masculinity in A mercy / Susan Neal Mayberry.