Toni Morrison : Memory and Meaning.
Title:
Toni Morrison : Memory and Meaning.
Author:
Seward, Adrienne Lanier.
ISBN:
9781628460209
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Buckeye -- Part I. "This is where I belong" -- "Dangerously Free": Morrison's Unspeakable Territory -- Modernity and the Homeless: Toni Morrison and the Fictions of Modernism -- Resurrecting the Dead Girl: Modernism and the Problem of History in Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise -- To Make a Humanist Black: Toni Wofford's Howard Years -- Part II. "Regrets, excuses, righteousness, false memory and future plans mixed together or stood like soldiers in line" -- Trying to Get Home: Place and Memory in Toni Morrison's Fiction -- The Pursuit of Memory -- Personal and Cultural Memory in A Mercy -- Love: An Elegy for the African American Community, or The Unintended Consequences of Desegregation/Integration -- Part III. "Her garden was not Eden -- it was so much more than that" -- From Eden to Paradise: A Pilgrimage through Toni Morrison's Trilogy -- "And the Greatest of These": Toni Morrison, the Bible, Love -- Palimpsest: Reading John Winthrop through the Morrison Trilogy -- Magically Flying with Toni Morrison: Mexico, Gabriel García Márquez, Song of Solomon, and Sula -- Part IV. "Now it seemed both fresh and ancient, safe and demanding" -- Property and American Identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Aeschylus, Euripides, and Toni Morrison: Miasma, Revenge, and Atonement -- Toni Morrison's Performance of the Word in Song of Solomon: The Folkloric, the Fantastic, and "Some Old Folk's Lie" -- "A Kind of Restoration": Psychogeographies of Healing in Toni Morrison's Home -- Part V. "You can keep on writing but I think you ought to know what's true" -- Aesthetic Activity -- "'There is the Power,' he thought, 'right there'": Dramatizing Entropy in Tar Baby and Paradise -- Telling Stories: Evolving Narrative Identity in Toni Morrison's Home.
"Newness trembles me"? Representations of White Masculinity in Toni Morrison's A Mercy -- The Sound of Change: A Musical Transit through the Wounded Modernity of Desdemona -- Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known international scholars focusing on the author's literary production and including her very latest works-the theatrical production Desdemona and her tenth and latest novel, Home. These original contributions are among the first scholarly analyses of these latest additions to her oeuvre and make the volume a valuable addition to potential readers and teachers eager to understand the position of Desdemona and Home within the wider scope of Morrison's career. Indeed, in Home, we find a reworking of many of the tropes and themes that run throughout Morrison's fiction, prompting the editors to organize the essays as they relate to themes prevalent in Home. In many ways, Morrison has actually initiated paradigm shifts that permeate the essays. They consistently reflect, in approach and interpretation, the revolutionary change in the study of American literature represented by Morrison's focus on the interior lives of enslaved Africans. This collection assumes black subjectivity, rather than argues for it, in order to reread and revise the horror of slavery and its consequences into our time. The analyses presented in this volume also attest to the broad range of interdisciplinary specializations and interests in novels that have now become classics in world literature. The essays are divided into five sections, each entitled with a direct quotation from Home, and framed by two poems: Rita Dove's "The Buckeye" and Sonia Sanchez's "Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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