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Interrogation de l'œuvre à partir de ce que l'écrivaine nomme les « petits mécanismes qui régissent la vie quotidienne », du détail ordinaire, de ce presque rien qui en dit long sur les choses subies et tues. La question du regard et du visible se pose, manifeste, dérangeante, au seuil de l'œuvre de Toni Morrison. Cet ouvrage novateur réunit des voix contrastées, divergentes, polémiques qui ont tentées d'être à l'écoute d'une partie de l'imaginaire de l'écrivaine et de rendre perceptibles, tangibles les nuances d'une œuvre exceptionnelle. Du premier roman, The Bluest Eye (1970) à Home (2012), en passant par les essais et les entretiens de l'écrivaine, l'ouvrage retrace l'instabilité du monde et les leçons de vie et d'écriture que propose la demeure « Morrison ».

Morrison, Toni --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between reader and text as a type of friendship, the book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema to show that our multiple social contexts affect what we perceive and how we feel when we read. Championing and modeling a kind of close reading that attends to how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, Paula M. L. Moya demonstrates the power of works of literature by writers such as Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, and Helena Maria Viramontes to alter perceptions and reshape cultural imaginaries. Insofar as literary fiction is a unique form of engagement with weighty social problems, it matters not only which specific works of literature we read and teach, but also how we read them, and with whom. This is what constitutes the social imperative of literature.

American fiction --- Race in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Race in literature --- Morrison, Toni --- Diaz, Junot --- Criticism and interpretation --- Viramontes, Helena Maria --- Muñoz, Manuel

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Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences. Inspired by recent philosophical thinking on post-secularism and by Northrop Frye's theorizing on the connections between the Bible and the development of Western literature, Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison.Examining these novels through the lens of Frye's ambitious account of literature's transcendent, or kerygmatic power, Le Fustec argues that American fiction has always contained the seeds of a rejection of radical skepticism and a return to spiritual experience. Beyond an insightful analysis of Frye's ideas, Northrop Frye and American Fiction is powerful testimony of their continued interpretive potential.

James, Henry, 1843-1916. The Europeans --- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the Road --- Post-secularism --- Post-sécularisme --- Postsecularism --- Postsecularisme --- Postsécularisme --- Transcendance (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature --- Transcendentie (Filosofie) in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature. --- Postsecularism. --- American fiction. --- History and criticism. --- Frye, Northrop --- Frye, Northrop. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1800 - 1999 --- Criticism and interpretation --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Steinbeck, John --- Morrison, Toni