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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher. Innovative contributions from internationally recognized critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature. This comprehensive and accessible approach, together with a chronology and guide to further reading, makes this an essential book for students and scholars of African American literature.
Morrison, Toni --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- African Americans in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 820 "19" MORRISON, TONI --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MORRISON, TONI --- 820 "19" MORRISON, TONI Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MORRISON, TONI --- Criticism and interpretation --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Wofford, Chloe Anthony --- Morrisonová, Toni --- מוריסון, טוני --- Noirs américains --- Dans la littérature --- Noirs américains --- Dans la littérature
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This work expands the scope of Morrison's project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author's specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims the very origins of civilization's primal concerns with life, procreation and regeneration, springing from the very Heart of Africa. Despite the weight of 'white' authority and the disparaging of 'blackness', "Beloved"'s multiple 'ghosts' conjure up a legacy so potent that no authoritarian discourse has been able to entirely erase it, a legacy that still speaks to us from a heritage we no longer acknowledge yet that nevertheless remains, and sustains us.
Memory in literature --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Morrison, Toni. --- Morrison, Toni --- MORRISON (TONI), 1931 --- -MEMOIRE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION
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Toni Morrison's ninth novel, A Mercy, has been received with much acclaim by both the critical and lay reading public. Hailed as her best novel after the award-winning Beloved, most critics to date have concentrated on its setting in the late seventeenth
820 "19" MORRISON, TONI --- 820 "19" MORRISON, TONI Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MORRISON, TONI --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MORRISON, TONI --- Morrison, Toni. --- Morrison, Toni --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Wofford, Chloe Anthony --- Morrisonová, Toni --- מוריסון, טוני
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Toni Morrison's ninth novel, A Mercy, has been received with much acclaim by both the critical and lay reading public. Hailed as her best novel after the award-winning Beloved, most critics to date have concentrated on its setting in the late seventeenth
Racism in literature. --- Morrison, Toni --- Morrison, Toni. --- Wofford, Chloe Anthony --- Morrisonová, Toni --- מוריסון, טוני --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Morrison, Toni,
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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."
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"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 presented 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.""--
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Ce recueil découle d’un symposium européen organisé conjointement par les Universités de Paris VII et de Tours en 1993. Un premier volume fut consacré à Toni Morrison, en particulierBeloved. Tardivement, mais toujours d’actualité, ce second volume aborde d’autres fictions et montre ainsi la richesse et la complexité de la production noire au nouveau monde. On remarquera la présence d’auteurs des Caraïbes. À travers la quête identitaire et historique qui caractérise la production contemporaine, de par la globalisation de la diaspora, cette aire de production littéraire a pris un rôle grandissant dans l’évolution de la littérature noire des États-Unis.
Ethnic Studies --- littérature --- histoire --- États-Unis
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