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La source de l'amour-propre" réunit une quarantaine de textes écrits par Toni Morrison au cours des dernières décennies, où se donne à lire, dans toute son évidence, sa généreuse intelligence. Elle s'implique, débat, ou analyse des thèmes aussi variés que le rôle de l'artiste dans la société, la question de l'imagination en littérature, la présence des Afro-Américains dans la culture américaine ou encore les pouvoirs du langage. On retrouve dans ces essais ce qui fait également la puissance de ses romans : l'examen des dynamiques raciales et sociales, sa grande empathie, et son pragmatisme politique. La Source de l'amour-propre est à la fois une porte d'entrée dans l'œuvre de Toni Morrison et une somme où se donne à lire l'acuité combative de son autrice. C'est aussi, dans un style dont la vigueur ne cesse de nous éblouir, un puissant appel à l'action, au rêve, à l'espoir.

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Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries.Moore traces black women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial-era work of Phillis Wheatley to the postmodern efforts of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-created the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping their subordinate status and behavior. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and other social science theory, Moore examines the maternal iconography and counter-hegemonic narratives by which these writers responded to oppressive conventions of race, gender, and authority.Moore grounds her account in studies of Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. All these authors, she contends, wrote against invisibility and powerlessness by developing and cultivating a personal voice and an individual story of vulnerability, nurturing capacity, and agency that confounded prevailing notions of race and gender and called into question moral reform.In these nine writers' construction of feminine images-real and symbolic-Moore finds a shared sense of the historically significant role of black women in the liberation struggle during slavery, the Jim Crow period, and beyond.

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