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Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition

Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition Contemporary literature

Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 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. Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition provides a comprehensive analysis of Morrison's entire oeuvre, from her early interrogation of Black Power to her engagement with fin de siècle postcolonial critiques of nationalism and twenty-first century considerations of ecology. Justine Baillie goes on to argue that Morrison's aesthetic should be understood in relation to the historical, political and cultural contexts in which it, and the African-American and American literary traditions upon which she draws, have been created and developed.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
238
Release Date:
2013-08-01
Publication Date:
2013-08-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1441183108
ISBN13:
9781441183101
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Weight:
526 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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