This is an introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction focusing on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. Jill Matus approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history.
An introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, this text focuses on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. It approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history, and argues that Morrison sees African-American history - from the times of slavery to the continued racial oppressions of the 20th century - as a history of traumatic experience, and explores how this powerful storyteller bears witness to a painful yet enlivening past. Morrison's novels are known for their lyric power, but they often dwell on scenes of horror, and this text emphasizes the uneasy relations of memory, pain and pleasure in literature.
An introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, this text focuses on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. It approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history, and argues that Morrison sees African-American history - from the times of slavery to the continued racial oppressions of the 20th century - as a history of traumatic experience, and explores how this powerful storyteller bears witness to a painful yet enlivening past. Morrison's novels are known for their lyric power, but they often dwell on scenes of horror, and this text emphasizes the uneasy relations of memory, pain and pleasure in literature.
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American...
Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated...
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