Analyzes the relationship between race and genre in Toni Morrison's novels, showing how Morrison's break with traditional narrative forms work to undermine and rewrite the canon of American literature. -- from publisher description.
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This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison's novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues how Morrison's novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal r…
Analyzes the relationship between race and genre in Toni Morrison's novels, showing how Morrison's break with traditional narrative forms work to undermine and rewrite the canon of American literature. -- from publisher description.
This book offers broad contemporary perspectives with regard to Toni Morrison's fiction. The contributions engage on widely debated issues of current American discourse such as the ineradicability of historical memory, the intricacy of racial identity, and the role of literature…
The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrison?s fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two. The authors analyze Morrison?s texts not solely as aesthetic, autonomous objects but as manifestations of a cultura…
"This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"--.
With reference to Paul Ricoeur’s conception of the interconnectedness of history and fiction, this comparative literary study examines narrative strategies that three contemporary writers of fiction – Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri – have devised to counteract the in…
With reference to Paul Ricoeur's conception of the interconnectedness of history and fiction, this comparative literary study examines narrative strategies that three contemporary writers of fiction - Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri - have devised to counteract the in…
