African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison /

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Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply into African spiritual traditions, clearly explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels. The result is a comprehensive, tour-de-fo...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Zauditu-Selassie, K.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Morrison, Toni.
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni > Spirtualistic interpretations.
Morrison, Toni > Knowledge > Africa.
Yoruba (African people) in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
Literature.
American literature > African influences.
African Americans in literature.
Litterature americaine > Influence africaine.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Spiritualite dans la litterature.
Africa.
Afrique > Dans la litterature.
Africa > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • I's got the blues : Malochia, magic, and the descent into madness in The bluest eye
  • Always: the living ancestor and the testimony of Will in Sula
  • I've got a home in date rock: ritual and the construction of family history in Song of Solomon
  • Dancing with trees and dreaming of yellow dresses: the dilemma of Jadine in Tar baby
  • In(her)iting the divine: (consola)tions, sacred (convent)ions, and mediations of the spiritual in-between in Paradise
  • Living with the dead: memory and ancestral presence in Beloved
  • Tracing Wild's child Joe and tracking the hunter: an examination of the Órísá Ochossi in Jazz
  • If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more: Toni Morrison's Love and spiritual authorship.

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