Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic
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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.
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Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic
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.
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Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic

Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic

by Justine Baillie
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic

Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic

by Justine Baillie

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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

ISBN-13: 9781441145512
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 08/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 555 KB

About the Author

Justine Baillie is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich, UK. She has published on Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father and American Fiction.
Justine Jenny Baillie is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is co-author of Beginning Gender.

Table of Contents

Part I: Finding A Voice\1. Finding a Voice\Part II: Identity, Ideology and Community\2. The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973)\3. Song of Solomon (1977) and Tar Baby (1981)\4. Beloved (1987) and 'The Site of Memory' (1987)\Part III: Repetition, Memory and the End of Race\5. Jazz (1992) and Playing in the Dark (1992)\6. Paradise (1998), 'Home' (1997) and 'Recitatif' (1983)\7. Love (2003)\8. A Mercy (2008)\Bibliography\Index.
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