Toni Morrison - Brossura

Matus, Jill L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0719044480 ISBN 13: 9780719044489

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

An illuminating study of one of the best-selling, most widely studied black authors today. Explains Morrison's relation to the American civil rights and Black Consciousness movements. Places Morrison in a political and historical context .

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L'autore:

Jill Matus is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto
Jill Matus is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto

Product Description:

An introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, this text focuses on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. It approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history, and argues that Morrison sees African-American history - from the times of slavery to the continued racial oppressions of the 20th century - as a history of traumatic experience, and explores how this powerful storyteller bears witness to a painful yet enlivening past. Morrison's novels are known for their lyric power, but they often dwell on scenes of horror, and this text emphasizes the uneasy relations of memory, pain and pleasure in literature.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0719044480
• ISBN 13: 9780719044489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 150