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Toni Morrison : an ethical poetics /

Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Christiansë, Yvette
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • From witnessing to death dealing: on speaking of and for the dead
  • Burnt offerings: law and sacrifice
  • Time out of joint: the temporal logic of Morrison's modernist apocalyptics
  • Beginning and ending, part one: old languages/new bodies
  • Beginnings and endings, part two: the poetics of similitude and disavowal at utopia's gates
  • Epilogue.