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Title:
Toni Morrison and literary tradition : the invention of an aesthetic / Justine Baillie.
Author:
Baillie, Justine, author.
Publication Information:
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
Call Number:
PS3563 .O8749 Z55 2015
Abstract:
"Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison's construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central to the imagining and re-imagining of American and diasporic identities. Covering the Nobel Prize-winning author's novels (up to Home), as well as her essays, dramatic works and short stories, this book situates Morrison's writings within both African-American and American writing traditions and examines them in terms of her continuous dialogue with the politics, philosophy and literary forms of these traditions."--Back cover.
Edition:
Paperback edition.
ISBN:
9781441183101

9781474222914
Physical Description:
229 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
"First published 2013"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Introduction : 'The changing same' -- Historical and literary context : The Harlem Renaissance -- Ideology, identity and the community : The bluest eye (1970) and Sula (1973) -- Intertextuality and gender politics : Song of Solomon (1977) and Tar baby (1981) -- Repetition, memory and the end of race : Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1998) -- Reading and writing : Love (2003), A mercy (2008), Home (2012).
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