Author by: Toni Morrison Languange: en Publisher by: Harvard University Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 88 Total Download: 323 File Size: 42,8 Mb Description: What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ideal for courses on Morrison or on explorations of the intersection of religion and literature, this collection treats its topic with sophistication, considering «religion» in its broadest possible sense, and examining syncretic theologies as well as mainstream religions in its attempt to locate Morrison’s work in a spiritual-theological nexus. Stave Languange: en Publisher by: Peter Lang Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 18 Total Download: 237 File Size: 51,9 Mb Description: This collection of essays critically interrogates Toni Morrison’s use of the Bible in her novels, examining the ways in which the author plays on the original text to raise issues of spirituality as it affects race, gender, and class. Morrison is a mythbasher, says Meinze, but she is also a mythmaker whose ontology finds its meaning in nature, primitivism, the past, and the supernatural.Īuthor by: Shirley A. Although Morrison's career represents an American success story, her writings attack values long revered in American society: the cult of domesticity and true womanhood, romantic love and ideal standards of beauty, capitalism and the Protestant work ethic, the primacy of Western culture and modern technology. In The Dilemma of 'Double-Consciousness' Denise Heinze makes a major contribution to the current dialogue on Morrison by analyzing the extent to which her novels have been influenced by history and the interactions of race, class, and gender.
American readers and critics have strongly embraced Morrison in spite of the fact that her writings pose a stern challenge to an America suffering from moral and intellectual lethargy.
Author by: Denise Heinze Languange: en Publisher by: Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 98 Total Download: 892 File Size: 47,7 Mb Description: The critical reception that greeted Toni Morrison's two most recent novels, Beloved and Jazz, was so enthusiastic that it became a hallmark not only in Morrison's own career but quite possibly in the history of African-American literature as well. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.
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