Toni Morrison : An Ethical Poetics /
This book situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience. In foregrounding the ethics of fiction writing, the book resists any triumphalist reading of Morrison's achievement...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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Édition: | 1st ed. |
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.